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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"
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.
In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, David Lodge makes the richness and variety of British and American fiction accessible to the general reader. He provides essential reading for students, aspiring writers and anyone who wants to understand how fiction works.
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.
In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy, James, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. The significance of each writer in their own time is explained, the relation of their work to that of predecessors and successors explored, and their most important novels analysed. These essays do not aim to create a canon in a prescriptive way, but taken together they describe a strong developing tradition of the writing of fictional prose over the past 300 years. This volume is a helpful guide for those studying and teaching the novel, and will allow readers to consider the significance of less familiar authors such as Henry Green and Elizabeth Bowen alongside those with a more established place in literary history.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Writings of E. M. Forster" by Rose Macaulay. 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.
A collection of essays on the life and work of E. M. Forster.
These essays, lectures, memoirs, and broadcasts are the thought-provoking products of Forsters engagement with the literary, political, and social events of his time.
Nicholas Royle provides detailed readings of all Forster's novels, as well as of critical writings such as his Aspects of the Novel.
One of the great novelists of the century--author of A Passage to India and Howards End--E.M. Forster has been an enigma to the public. In his new biography, Beauman wonderfully explores every aspect of Forster's life, evoking his lifelong obsession with houses, families, and inherited traditions. 16 pages of photos; 12 illustrations.