E. M Forster

To illuminate the changing times, Forster throws together three vastly dissimilar classes of people: the Schlegels, Helen and Margaret, educated, compassionate and independently wealthy; the Wilcoxes, nouveau riche Empire builders; and Leonard Bast, an ambitious but struggling bank clerk. When impetuous Helen Schlegel believes herself to be in love with Paul, the youngest of the Wilcox sons, she sparks off a connection between the two families that...

Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) is a novel by English author E.M. Forster. The work was Forster's first novel, and its success helped launch his lengthy and critically acclaimed career as a writer of literary fiction. Where Angels Fear to Tread, the title is drawn from Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism (1711), is a moving meditation on class, gender, social convention, and the grieving process. Following the death of her husband, a widow named...

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Celestial Omnibus, and Other Stories" by E. M. Forster. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature....

First published in 1927, E. M. Forster's "Aspects of the Novel" compiles a series of lectures given to Trinity College at the University of Cambridge in that same year. By utilizing examples from other classic works Forster puts forward a standard theory on the writing of fictional prose. The book takes turns tackling the issues of story and plot, character, fantasy, prophecy, pattern and rhythm in the writing of novels; the elements which Forster...

E. M. Forster (1879-1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist, and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel, Howards End: "Only connect..." His 1908 novel, A Room with a View, is his most optimistic work, while...

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by E. M. Forster: Howards End; The Longest Journey; A Room With A View; Where Angels Fear to Tread.

This compilation of short stories by one of the twentieth century's preeminent authors spotlights journal and magazine fiction from 1900 to 1911. These early tales exhibit the first traces of E. M. Forster's witty and elegant style as well as the profound humanism that he further developed in his later novels. Six fables reinterpret classical stories and themes, drawing upon folkloric elements to explore the truth of the imagination and the effects...

El narrador de Pánico refleja la mezquindad moral y emocional que E.M. Forster considera, con suave ironía, típica de la clase alta inglesa. Este personaje emite juicios sobre todas las situaciones y personas que lo rodean. Sin embargo, como se ¡acta de saber contar una historia sin exageraciones, resuelve hacer un relato imparcial de los extraordinarios sucesos ocurridos ocho años atrás. "Aunque el hermoso cielo azul estaba arriba y los...

"His fingers hungered. George's heart pounded within the confines of his chest. The young woman bedazzled him like no other. Her beauty allured him, compelled him to act upon impulse. He wanted her. The touch of her soft lips against his, to feel her, to know her quiet sighs. When Lucy left the dinner table with no explanation, it was all too clear ... E. M. Forster's classic tale of a young woman and man in the early twentieth century who must reject...

Room with a view. Miss Lucy Honeychurch is an upper class young English woman whose inherent passion for life is stifled until a trip to Italy where she tastes impetuousness and begins to take her life into her own hands -- Howards End. A country house serves as the setting for a fateful confrontation among three vastly different kinds of people: the Wilcoxes, staunch believers in tradition and property rights-- and little else ; the Schlegel sisters,...