E. M Forster
The Longest Journey (1907) follows the young Rickie Elliot's journey to maturity. Orphaned and lame as a child, Rickie was teased at boarding school and finds Cambridge to be a kind of paradise. He is not an intellectual, but is deeply affected by art and poetry, and is accepted within a philosophical circle of students. His new sense of belonging is challenged when he is visited by old friends from home.
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) follows two women to Italy: the widowed Lilia Herriton and her traveling companion Caroline Abbott. Lilia falls passionately in love with the country, and also with a young Italian man. Her decision to remain in Italy enrages her dead husband's family, who send her brother-in-law to fetch her back.
Fans of fantasy and science fiction will delight in this collection of imaginative tales from influential British author E. M. Forster. Though best known for his nuanced look at class distinctions in English society in acclaimed novels such as Howards End, Forster's prodigious imagination is on full display in these fascinating fantasy and science fiction tales.
Featuring fourteen short stories, The Life to Come spans six decades of E. M. Forster’s literary career, tracking every phase of his development. Never having sought publication for most of the stories—only two were published in his lifetime—Forster...
In 1912, a young E. M. Forster traveled to India to serve as a secretary to the Maharajah of Dewas, a small Indian state. He was elevated to the rank of a minor noble, and eventually given the state’s highest...
Renowned for such classics as A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India, E. M. Forster was one of Britain’s—and the world’s—most distinguished fiction writers, a frequent nominee for the Nobel...
From the modern literary giant, author of Howard's End and A Passage to India, comes a portrait of ancient and modern Alexandria in thirteen short essays.
Alexandria, Egypt, was at one point a trading hub and a cosmopolitan crossroads of the world—the axis of civilization. Yet, centuries later, its glory long faded. It was also the place where E. M. Forster, stationed there with the British Red Cross during
11) Howards End
The Never-Ending Conflict Between the Old Ways and the New Ways
"The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty." - E.M. Forster, Howards End
Howards End is an estate with a rich history
...Imagine, if you can, a small room, hexagonal in shape, like the cell of a bee. It is lighted neither by window nor by lamp, yet it is filled with a soft radiance. There are no apertures for ventilation, yet the air is fresh. There are no musical instruments, and yet, at the moment that my meditation opens, this room is throbbing with melodious sounds. An armchair is in the centre, by its side a reading-desk-that is all the furniture.
15) Howards End
A great new collection of classic short fiction, brilliantly read by a selection of narrators
This recording includes the following stories:
- "The Lightening-Rod Man" by Herman Melville
- "One of the Missing" by Ambrose Bierce
- "The Leopard Man's Story" by Jack London
- "Tennessee's Partner" by Bret Harte
- "The New Catacomb" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- "A Pair of Silk Stockings" by Kate Chopin
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