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The Machine Stops
E.M. Forster
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R215
R192
Discovery Miles 1 920
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Howards End (Hardcover)
E.M. Forster; Created by Vintage Books
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R890
Discovery Miles 8 900
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The novelist E. M. Forster opens the door on life in a remote
Maharajah's court in the early twentieth century, a "record of a
vanished civilization." Through letters from his time visiting and
working there, he introduces us to a 14th century political system
in "the oddest corner of the world outside Alice in Wonderland"
where the young Maharajah of Devas, "certainly a genius and
possibly a saint," led a state centered on spiritual aspirations.
The Hill of Devi chronicles Forster's infatuation and exasperation,
fascination, and amusement at this idiosyncratic court, leading us
with him to its heart and the eight-day festival of Gokul Ashtami,
marking the birth of Krishna, where we see His Highness Maharajah
Sir Tukoji Rao III dancing before the altar "like David before the
Ark."
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Maurice (Paperback)
E.M. Forster
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R360
R336
Discovery Miles 3 360
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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 lvoe 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." A wonderful novel to read—rich in its subtle intelligence, beautifully controlled in its development, deeply moving—in short, the work of an exceptional artists working close to the peak of his creative powers."—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times
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