Selected Stories
$30.69
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
5 January 2002
Summary
Although he is best known for his novels—several of which have been made into popular movies—E.M. Forster also published stories. This volume, which collects those stories published during Forster’s lifetime, provides an opportunity for readers to discover these less familiar works. Rich in irony and alive with sharp observations on the surprises life holds, the stories often feature violent events, discomforting coincidences, and other disruptive happenings that throw the characters’ percept…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141186191 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141186194 |
| Author: | E.M. Forster |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 5 January 2002 |
| Weight: | 188g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 129mm x 196mm |
| Series: | Penguin Twentieth Century Classics |
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E.M. Forster
Edward Morgan Forster was born in London in 1879. He attended Tonbridge School and King’s College, Cambridge, where he later became an Honorary Fellow. Forster described his life as undramatic and was notably modest about his accomplishments. He stated that he wrote novels for financial reasons and to earn the respect of those he admired, and he did not consider himself a “great novelist.” However, both critics and the public widely regarded him as one of the most esteemed English novelists of his era.
Forster authored six novels:
- Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905)
- The Longest Journey (1907)
- A Room with a View (1908)
- Howard’s End (1910)
- A Passage to India (published 1924, after a 14-year interval). This novel received the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
- Maurice, a novel exploring homosexual themes, was completed in 1914 but published posthumously in 1971.
In addition to his novels, Forster published:
- Two volumes of short stories.
- Two collections of essays.
- Aspects of the Novel, a work of literary criticism.
- The Hill of Devi, documenting his visits to the Indian State of Dewas Senior.
- Two biographies.
- Two books about Alexandria, where he worked for the Red Cross during World War I.
- The libretto for Benjamin Britten’s opera Billy Budd, co-authored with Eric Crozier.
Edward Morgan Forster died in June 1970.
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