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Lifetime: 1879 - 1970 Passed: ≈ 54 years ago

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E. M. Forster

Books by E. M. Forster

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Room with a View

Romance Fiction Drama Novel
19th century Love Morality Beauty Independence Romance Tradition Culture Travel Freedom Art Society Class Identity England Feminism Atheism Social Change Italy Early 20th century Bohemian Conformity Convention Choice Florence

When Lucy Honeychurch travels to Italy with her cousin, she meets George Emerson, a bohemian and an atheist who falls in love with her. Upon her return to England, she is forced to choose between free-spirited George and her more conventional fiancé,...

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Howards End

Fiction Drama Novel
Family Love Tragedy Inheritance Moral Class Loss Capitalism England London Feminism Ethics Social Inequality Edwardian era Connection Property Wilcox Schlegel Bast Middle Class Intellectualism Real Estate

The book is about three families in England at the beginning of the twentieth century. The three families represent different gradations of the Edwardian middle class: the Wilcoxes, who are rich capitalists with a fortune made in the Colonies; the ha...

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Machine Stops

Dystopian Philosophy Science Fiction
Future Dystopia Fear Nature Faith Progress Society Isolation Skepticism Loss Individualism Knowledge Technology Humanity Ignorance Alienation Spiritual Experience Community Apocalypse Dependence Machine Artificial intelligence Connectivity Communication Overreliance Dehumanization Collapse Virtual reality Virtual world Regression Over-reliance Real world Physical

The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual lives in isolation in a 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs met by...

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Where Angels Fear to Tread

Romance Fiction Drama Novel
Family Marriage Love Morality Widow Independence Death Tragedy Romance Inheritance Social Class Control Travel Italy social commentary English Culture Clash Child Tuscany Misalliance Custody Italian Foreign Culture

On a journey to Tuscany with her young friend and traveling companion Caroline Abbott, widowed Lilia Herriton falls in love with both Italy and a handsome Italian much younger than herself, and decides to stay. Furious, her dead husband's family send...

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Longest Journey

Romance Fiction Drama
Love War Friendship Art Class Identity England Disability Philosophy Cambridge Early 20th century Cynicism University Social Hierarchy

Frederick Elliot is a student at early 20th century Cambridge, a university that seems like paradise to him, amongst bright if cynical companions, when he receives a visit from two friends, an engaged young woman, Agnes Pembroke, and her older brothe...

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Passage to India

A Passage to India (1924) is a novel by English author E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. The story revolves around four characters: Dr. Aziz, his British friend Mr. Cyril Fiel...

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Celestial Omnibus, and Other Stories

With twenty Nobel Prize nominations to his credit, E. M. Forster may reasonably be considered one of the best writers of the 20th century – perhaps of all time. He is best known for his 1924 novel A Passage to India. But almost all his writings met w...

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Aspects of the Novel

This s a series of lectures given at Trinity College by the acclaimed author E.M. Forster (A Passage to India, Howard's End, A Room With a View) . In them, he discusses "both the different ways we can look at a novel and the different ways a novelist...