E.M. Forster Books In Order

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905)
  2. The Longest Journey (1907)
  3. A Room with a View (1908)
  4. Howards End (1910)
  5. The Story of the Siren (1920)
  6. A Passage to India (1924)
  7. Maurice (1971)
  8. Arctic Summer (1980)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. The Eternal Moment and Other Stories (1928)
  2. Abinger Harvest (1936)
  3. Collected Short Stories (1947)
  4. The Machine Stops (1947)
  5. Albergo Empedocle, and Other Writings (1971)
  6. The Life to Come and Other Short Stories (1972)
  7. The Collected Tales of E. M. Forster (1986)
  8. The New Collected Short Stories (1989)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Pharos and Pharillon (1923)
  2. Aspects of the Novel (1927)
  3. What I Believe, and Other Essays (1939)
  4. Nordic Twilight (1940)
  5. Two Cheers For Democracy (1951)
  6. The Hill of Devi (1953)
  7. Battersea Rise (1955)
  8. Marianne Thornton (1956)
  9. Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1962)
  10. Alexandria (1974)
  11. Selected Letters of E M Forster 1879-1920 V1 (1983)
  12. Selected Letters of E.M. Forster, Vol. 2 (1985)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. 50 Great Short Stories (1952)
  2. The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010)

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E.M. Forster Books Overview

Where Angels Fear to Tread

‘Let her go to Italy!’ he cried. ‘Let her meddle with what she doesn’t understand! Look at this letter! The man who wrote it will marry her, or murder her, or do for her somehow. He’s a bounder, but he’s not an English bounder. He’s mysterious and terrible. He’s got a country behind him that’s upset people from the beginning of the world.’

When a young English widow takes off on the grand tour and along the way marries a penniless Italian, her in-laws are not amused. That the marriage should fail and poor Lilia die tragically are only to be expected. But that Lilia should have had a baby — and that the baby should be raised as an Italian! — are matters requiring immediate correction by Philip Herriton, his dour sister Harriet, and their well-meaning friend Miss Abbott.

In his first novel, E. M. Forster anticipated the themes of cultural collision and the sterility of the English middle class that he would develop in A Room with a View and A Passage to India. Where Angels Fear to Tread is an accomplished, harrowing, and malevolently funny book, in which familiar notions of vice and virtue collapse underfoot and the best intentions go mortally awry.

The Longest Journey

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Part I Cambridge THE cow is there,’ said Ansell, lighting a match and holding it out over the carpet. No one spoke. He waited till the end of the match fell off. Then he said again, ‘She is there, the cow. There, now.’ ‘You have not proved it,’ said a voice. ‘I have proved it to myself.’ ‘I have proved to myself that she isn’t,’ said the voice. ‘The cow is not there.’ Ansell frowned and lit another match. ‘She’s there for me,’ he declared. ‘I don’t care whether she’s there for you or not. Whether I’m in Cambridge or Iceland or, dead, the cow will be there.’ It was philosophy. They were discussing the existence of objects. Do they exist only when there is some one to look at them? or have they a real existence of their own? It is all very interesting, but at the same time it is difficult. Hence the cow. She seemed to make things easier. She was so familiar, so solid, that surely the truths that she illustrated would in time become familiar and solid also. Is the cow there or not ? This was better than deciding between objectivity and subjectivity. So at Oxford, just at the same time, one was asking, ‘What do our rooms look like in the vac.?’ ‘Look here, Ansell. I’m there in the meadow the cow’s there. You’re there the cow’s there. Do you agree so far?’ ‘Well?’ ‘Well, if you go, the cow stops; but if I go, the cow goes. Then what will happen if you stop and I go?’ Several voices cried out that this was quibbling. ‘I know it is,’ said the speaker brightly, and silence descended again, while they tried honestly to think the matter out. Rickie, on whose carpet the matches were being dropped, did not like to join in the discussion. It was too difficult for him. He could not even quibble. If he spoke, he should simply make himself a fool. He preferred to…

A Room with a View

A Room with a View, by E. M. Forster, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today’s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader’s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works.
A charming tale of the battle between bourgeois repression and radical romanticism, E. M. Forster‘s third novel has long been the most popular of his early works. A young girl, Lucy Honeychurch, and her chaperon products of proper Edwardian England visit a tempestuous, passionate Italy. Their room with a view allows them to look into a world far different from their own, a world unconcerned with convention, unfettered by social rituals, and unafraid of emotion. Soon Lucy finds herself bound to an obviously unsuitable man, the melancholic George Emerson, whose improper advances she dare not publicize. Back home, her friend and mentor Charlotte Bartlett and her mother, try to manipulate her into marriage with the more appropriate but smotheringly dull Cecil Vyse, whose surname suggests the imprisoning effect he would have on Lucy s spirit.

A colorful gallery of characters, including George s riotously funny father, Lucy s sullen brother, the novelist Eleanor Lavish, and the reverend Mr. Beebe, line up on either side, and A Room with a View unfolds as a delightfully satiric comedy of manners and an immensely satisfying love story.

Radhika Jones is a freelance writer and a Ph.D. candidate in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

Howards End

Howards End, by E. M. Forster, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today’s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader’s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works.

Considered by many to be E. M. Forster‘s greatest novel, Howards End is a beautifully subtle tale of two very different families brought together by an unusual event. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes are practical and materialistic, leading lives of telegrams and anger. When the elder Mrs. Wilcox dies and her family discovers she has left their country home Howards End to one of the Schlegel sisters, a crisis between the two families is precipitated that takes years to resolve.

Written in 1910, Howards End is a symbolic exploration of the social, economic, and intellectual forces at work in England in the years preceding World War I, a time when vast social changes were occurring. In the Schlegels and the Wilcoxes, Forster perfectly embodies the competing idealism and materialism of the upper clas*ses, while the conflict over the ownership of Howards End represents the struggle for possession of the country s future. As critic Lionel Trilling once noted, the novel asks, Who shall inherit England?

Forster refuses to take sides in this conflict. Instead he poses one of the book s central questions: In a changing modern society, what should be the relation between the inner and outer life, between the world of the intellect and the world of business? Can they ever, as Forster urges, only connect ?

Mary Gordon is a McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College. Her best selling novels include Final Payments, The Company of Women, and Spending. She has also published a memoir, a book of novellas, a collection of stories, and two books of essays. Her most recent work is a biography of Joan of Arc.

A Passage to India

In this hard hitting novel, first published in 1924, the murky personal relationship between an Englishwoman and an Indian doctor mirrors the troubled politics of colonialism. Adela Quested and her fellow British travelers, eager to experience the real India, develop a friendship with the urbane Dr. Aziz. While on a group outing, Adela and Dr. Aziz visit the Marabar caves together. As they emerge, Adela accuses the doctor of assaulting her. While Adela never actually claims she was raped, the decisions she makes ostracize her from both her countrymen and the natives, setting off a complex chain of events that forever changes the lives of all involved. This intense and moving story asks the listener serious questions about preconceptions regarding race, sex, religion, and truth. A political and philosophical masterpiece, this engrossing novel is also exotic and descriptive, making it exceptionally well suited to audio.

Maurice

‘The work of an exceptional artist working close to the peak of his powers.’ Christopher Lehmann Haupt, The New York Times Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist introduces us to Maurice Hall when he is fourteen. We follow him through public school and Cambridge, and on into his father’s firm, Hill and Hall, Stock Brokers. In a highly structured society, Maurice is a conventional young man in almost every way, ‘stepping into the niche that England had prepared for him’: except that his is homosexual. Written during 1913 and 1914, immediately after Howards End, and not published until 1971, Maurice was ahead of its time in its theme and in its affirmation that love between men can be happy. ‘Happiness,’ Forster wrote, ‘is its keynote. In Maurice I tried to create a character who was completely unlike myself or what I supposed myself to be: someone handsome, healthy, bodily attractive, mentally torpid, not a bad businessman and rather a snob. Into this mixture I dropped an ingredient that puzzles him, wakes him up, torments him and finally saves him.’

Arctic Summer

A powerful exploration of the clash between two opposing worlds, Forster’s Arctic Summer posits the instinctive bravery of the traditional hero alongside the tolerance of the modern man, calling into question the very essence of the gentlemanly code. Embarking on a tour of Italy with his wife and mother in law, Martin Whitby slips and falls under a train. Owing his rescue to the quick thinking of a young soldier, he feels obliged to thank the youth, and so pursues the acquaintance. The two men differ sharply in outlook and opinion, however, and part rudely. But once back in England, Martin finds himself called upon by the soldier with an urgent request for help. British novelist E.M. Forster is the author of several 20th century classics, including A Room with a View, Howard s End, and A Passage to India.

The Eternal Moment and Other Stories

A collection that explores the human spirit through a series of fantasy vignettes, including ‘The Machine Stops,’ ‘The Point of It,’ ‘Mr. Andrews,’ ‘Co ordination,’ ‘The Story of the Siren,’ and the title story.

Abinger Harvest

This collection of articles, essays, reviews, and poems, written by the author of A Passage to India, contains such well-known pieces as ‘Notes on the English Character,’ ‘Adrift in India,’ and ‘Me, Them and You.’ Also collected are essays on literary figures whose work Forster especially admired.

The Machine Stops

Edward Morgan Forster, OM 1879 1970, was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He is known best for his ironic and well plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th century British society. His humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End. He had five novels published in his lifetime. He achieved his greatest success with A Passage to India 1924. The novel takes as its subject the relationship between East and West, seen through the lens of India in the later days of the British Raj. His views as a secular humanist are at the heart of his work, which often depicts the pursuit of personal connections in spite of the restrictions of contemporary society. He is noted for his use of symbolism as a technique in his novels, and he has been criticised for his attachment to mysticism. His other works include Where Angels Fear to Tread 1905, The Longest Journey 1907, A Room with a View 1908 and Maurice 1971.

The Life to Come and Other Short Stories

Representing every phase of E. M. Forster’s career as a writer, the fourteen stories in this book span six decades from 1903 to 1957 or even later. Only two were published in his lifetime. Most of the other stories remained unpublished because of their overtly homosexual themes; instead they were shown to an appreciative circle of friends and fellow writers, including Christopher Isherwood, Siegfried Sassoon, Lytton Strachey, and T. E. Lawrence. The stories differ widely in mood and setting. One is a cheerful political satire; another has, most unusually for Forster, a historical setting; others give serious and powerful expression to some of Forster’s profoundest concerns. .

Pharos and Pharillon

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Aspects of the Novel

A highly original and intelligent investigation of the novel from celebrated writer and gentle genius E. M. Forster E. M. Forster’s renowned guide to writing sparkles with wit and insight for contemporary writers and readers. With lively language and excerpts from well known classics, Forster takes on the seven elements vital to a novel: story, people, plot, fantasy, prophecy, pattern, and rhythm. He not only defines and explains such terms as round versus flat characters and why both are needed for an effective novel, but also provides examples of writing from such literary greats as Dickens and Austen. Forster’s original commentary illuminates and entertains without lapsing into complicated, scholarly rhetoric, coming together in a key volume on writing that avoids chronology and what he calls pseudoscholarship.

Two Cheers For Democracy

Essays that applaud democracy’s toleration of individual freedom and self criticism and deplore its encouragement of mediocrity: ‘We may still contrive to raise three cheers for democracy, although at present she only deserves two.’

The Hill of Devi

The author’s experiences as private secretary to a brilliant young Maharajah. Forster creates a complex portrait of a true ruler. Photographs.

Marianne Thornton

The Abinger Edition of Marianne Thornton, based upon E. M. Forster’s own annotated copy, presents the text of one of his two full length biographies.

This truly was a ‘domestic’ biography, documenting the life of Forster’s great aunt. Marianne died in 1887, when Forster was aged eight, but his decision to focus upon her rather than one of his more publicly famous ancestors enabled him to emphasise the private implications of public life and give pride of place to the inner life. He was intrigued by the personality that emerged from the wealth of family archives he plundered during his research, and Marianne’s longevity enabled him to draw a rounded portrait of public and private life from the Georgian England of unreformed parliaments to the year of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee.

Alexandria

Alexandria is a city which has haunted and inspired its visitors for over 2,000 years. Here, two of its best known celebrants provide a view of Alexandria‘s present through the window of its past. Written during World War I, and later revised, this is Forster’s tribute to Alexandria a combined history of the city and a practicaql guide for the visitor. This annotated edition contains not only the first translation of Constantine Cavafy’s famous poem ‘The God Abandons Antony’ but also a specially commissioned introduction by Lawrence Durrell, who recounts his recent return to the city that served as a backdrop for the Alexandria Quartet.

Selected Letters of E M Forster 1879-1920 V1

The letters of the last half of E. M. Forster‘s life are as engaging as those of his earlier years. Imbued with the same wit, warmth, and vitality, they reveal the breadth of his interests and the great range and enduring quality of his friendships.

After a second trip to India in 1921, Forster finally finished the Indian novel he had begun years before. A Passage to India 1924 capped his career as a novelist; he then turned his energies to essays and other nonfictional prose. In the 1930s he emerged as an active journalist, writing and broadcasting on social and political issues. He fought for civil liberties and led a successful campaign against the BBC’s political blacklisting of performers. His correspondents during these years included T. S. Eliot, Siegfried Sassoon, Lennard and Virginia Woolf, Christopher Isherwood, and Stephen Spender.

At seventy Forster began along, happy, and productive new period in his life with his work on the libretto for Benjamin Britten’s opera Billy Budd. In 1960 he was a leading defense witness in the Lady Chatterley trial. By then he was a revered figure among literati and enjoyed advising younger writers. In these last decades he divided his time between his rooms at King’s College, Cambridge, and the home of his friends the Buckinghams in Coventry, where he died at age ninety one.

50 Great Short Stories

50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common the enduring quality of the writing, which places them among the masterpieces of the world s fiction.

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction features over a 150 years’ worth of the best science fiction ever collected in a single volume. The fifty two stories and critical introductions are organized chronologically as well as thematically for classroom use. Filled with luminous ideas, otherworldly adventures, and startling futuristic speculations, these stories will appeal to all readers as they chart the emergence and evolution of science fiction as a modern literary genre. They also provide a fascinating look at how our Western technoculture has imaginatively expressed its hopes and fears from the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century to the digital age of today. A free online teacher’s guide at www. wesleyan. edu/wespress/sfanthologyguide accompanies the anthology and offers access to a host of pedagogical aids for using this book in an academic setting. The stories in this anthology have been selected and introduced by the editors of Science Fiction Studies, the world’s most respected journal for the critical study of science fiction.

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