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P. N. Furbank's 1978 two-volume portrait, combined here into one edition, is generally considered the definitive biography of novelist E. M. Forster. "One of the best biographies of a writer I've ever read."--Walter Clemons, "Newsweek"
Papers presented at a seminar organized at the Osmania University, 1979.
Originally published in 1975, E. M. Forster: The Personal Voice draws on information about the life and works of E. M. Forster that came to light following his death in 1970. Exploring in particular the publication of Maurice in 1971, The Life to Come in 1972, and the Forster papers in King's College Library, Cambridge, this volume is an extensive study of E. M. Forster. It provides a comprehensive and detailed overview of Forster's work, his intellectual and literary background, his personality, and the reception of his work. E. M. Forster: The Personal Voice places Forster's works in their social and cultural context and provides an excellent insight into his development as a writer.
Based on exclusive access to E. M. Forster's previously restricted diaries this scrupulously researched and sensitively written biography is the first to put the fact that he was homosexual back at the heart of his story.
A concise critical study of Forster's personality, short stories, and novels.
E. M. Forster ranks among the finest novelists of the twentieth century. In this informed and sensitive survey of Forster's works and life, Claude Summers offers a persuasive and moving account of this major writer's unique achievement. The book explores Forster's entire canon, including the short stories and nonfiction as well as the six new novels. In addition to a major new approach to Forster's masterpiece, "A Passage to India", Summers offers important new readings of the early books and of the posthumously published "Maurice", a novel of homosexual love that previous critics have seriously undervalued. Throughout, the author synthesizes recent Fosterian scholarship and adds new discoveries and fresh insights of his own. -- From publisher's description.
Half a century after his demise, and over a century after the publication of his first novel Where Angels Fear to Tread in 1905, E. M. Forster still remains within the scope of interest of readers and critics. His life and his works continue to stir emotions and raise questions concerning humanity, nationality, and world culture(s). However, the opinions vary as to the continuation of the interest in the writer and his works. Some see him and his novels as old-fashioned, while others, like Zadie Smith, find Forster inspiring and the ‘muddled’ protagonists of his books fascinating. Is the interest in this writer to continue, or is it doomed to gradual oblivion? What is there in his life a...
Edward Morgan 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. Foster is the novelist who can be read again and again and who, after each reading, gives what few writers can give us after our first days of novel-reading, the sensation of having learned something else. In this book: The Celestial Omnibus and other stories (1911) Howard's End, (1910) Where Angels Fear to Tread, (1905) A Room with a View, (1908) The longest Journey, (1907)
Nicholas Royle provides detailed readings of all Forster's novels, as well as of critical writings such as his Aspects of the Novel.