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The Longest Journey (Paperback)
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The Longest Journey (Paperback)
Series: Mint Editions
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Loot Price R250
Discovery Miles 2 500
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The Longest Journey (1907) is a novel by English author E.M.
Forster. Despite its critical success, the novel was a commercial
failure for Forster, but has since grown in reputation and
readership to help cement his reception as one of twentieth century
England's most talented writers. Rickie Elliot enters Cambridge as
a young man, exploring his interests in poetry and art and joining
a circle of intellectuals centered around a philosopher named
Stewart Ansell. An orphan, Rickie cherishes his small number of
friends, including Agnes and her brother Herbert, who were his only
companions as a youth. When Agnes's fiance dies in a football
match, Rickie steps in to console her, and the two become engaged.
Shortly afterward, a visit to Rickie's elderly Aunt leads to his
discovery of a stepbrother named Stephen, and the young scholar is
plunged into the past and forced to face his family's secret
history. While Agnes, now his wife, encourages him to reject
Stephen, Rickie struggles with his feelings and takes his
frustration out on his pupils at the dormitory school where he has
been appointed to teach classics. Cut off from his Cambridge
friends, and growing apart from Agnes, Rickie makes an effort to
connect with Stephen, who has grown to be a troubled young man.
Between literary fame and married life, the bonds of family and
friendship, Rickie's story of hardship and personal development
poses poignant questions regarding social conventions, infidelity,
and the life of a struggling artist. The Longest Journey is a
powerful bildungsroman and the second novel published by English
literary icon E.M. Forster. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of E.M. Forster's
The Longest Journey is a classic of English literature reimagined
for modern readers.
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