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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."
Young Lucy Honeychurch leaves Edwardian England for a tour of
Italy, where she becomes immersed in an exotic new environment full
of unexpected possibilities. A Room With a View by E.M. Forster is
an influential classic that follows Lucy as she encounters
characters and events far outside her previous experience and must
see through the clash of cultures and personalities to recognize
both herself and whom she loves.
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A Room with a View (Paperback)
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A tour of Italy takes young Lucy Honeychurch out of her predictable
life in Edwardian England and places her into a new world that even
her chaperoning spinster aunt cannot control. Encountering
everything from unlikely traveling companions to street violence,
Lucy faces the greatest challenge in understanding her own shifting
emotions toward a most unsuitable suitor. Since it first appeared
in 1908 A Room With a View has been recognized as a masterful
depiction of character and conflict. Known to many through Merchant
Ivory's lush 1985 film adaptation, which won multiple awards
including the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, the novel provides
an even richer experience. Lucy's journey toward a fresh, true
understanding of herself and her passions make a compelling story,
leavened by both an unexpected dry humor and a belief in the power
of love.With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset
manuscript, this edition of A Room With a View is both modern and
readable.
'His great book ... masterly in its prescience and its lucidity'
ANITA DESAI A compelling portrait of a society in the grip of
imperialism, A Passage to India depicts the fate of individuals
caught in the great political and cultural conflicts of their age.
It begins when Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in
the Indian town of Chandrapore, and feel trapped by its insular and
prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the 'real
India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr
Aziz. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the
Marabar caves, and the well-respected doctor soon finds himself at
the centre of a scandal. Edited by OLIVER STALLYBRASS with an
Introduction by PANKAJ MISHRA
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) is a novel by English author E.M.
Forster. The work was Forster's first novel, and its success helped
launch his lengthy and critically acclaimed career as a writer of
literary fiction. Where Angels Fear to Tread-the title is drawn
from Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism (1711)-is a moving
meditation on class, gender, social convention, and the grieving
process. Following the death of her husband, a widow named Lilia
Herriton travels to Tuscany with her friend Caroline Abbott. In
Italy, Lilia falls in love with a young Italian named Gino, with
whom she decides to remain. This prompts a fierce backlash among
members of her deceased husband's family, who privilege their honor
and name over Lilia's happiness. Although they send Philip, her
brother-in-law, to Italy in order to retrieve her, Lilia has
already married Gino, and is pregnant with their child. When she
dies in childbirth, however, a fight ensues over the care of the
boy, whom the Herritons want to be raised as an Englishman in their
midst. Philip returns to Italy with his sister Harriet, meeting
Caroline and devising a plan to wrest control of the boy from Gino,
a loving and caring father. Where Angels Fear to Tread is a novel
that traces the consequences of selfish decisions, the politics of
family life, and the social conventions which hold women prisoner
to those who claim to support them. The novel was an immensely
successful debut for Forster, who would go on to become one of
England's most popular and critically acclaimed novelists of the
twentieth century. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of E.M. Forster's
Where Angels Fear to Tread is a classic of English literature
reimagined for modern readers.
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Howards End (Paperback)
E.M. Forster; Contributions by Mint Editions
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Howards End (1910) is a novel by English author E.M. Forster.
Inspired by his interactions with the famous Bloomsbury Group of
writers and intellectuals, as well as by his personal experience
growing up with a large inheritance on the family estate of Rooks
Nest, Howards End has been recognized as one of the finest novels
ever written in English. The story loosely follows the lives of
three families: the Wilcoxes, whose wealth derives from the
exploitation of British colonies; the Basts, an impoverished
couple; and the Schlegels, half-German sisters who find themselves
set between the vastly opposing classes of their peers. Much of the
novel is set on the Wilcox estate, known as Howards End, a symbol
of fortune and a reminder of the generational implications of
hoarded wealth. When Ruth Wilcox moves to London, she befriends her
neighbor Margaret Schlegel. On her deathbed, and in secret, Ruth
leaves a note instructing that Howards End be left to Margaret in
her will, bypassing her family entirely. When her son Henry, a
widower, finds out, he destroys the note, ensuring that the estate
remains within the family. Years later, when the two meet again,
Henry proposes to Margaret, bringing the Wilcox and Schlegel
families closer together. But when her sister Helen brings the
struggling Leonard and Jacky Bast to a party at Howards End, Henry,
who recognizes Jacky as a former mistress, believes he is being set
up, and breaks off the engagement. Although they reconcile,
Margaret is driven apart from her sisters, who resent the Wilcoxes
and distrust Henry. But when Helen becomes pregnant by Leonard, and
a tragic event destroys several lives, the families are brought
together once more, and both Margaret and Henry are forced to
choose between the fortune they stand to gain and the love they
stand to lose. E.M. Forster's Howards End is a masterpiece, a
brilliant study of family, wealth, romance, and secrecy that
captures the depravity of the English aristocracy without losing
what sets it apart-an undeterred sense of humanity. With a
beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of E.M. Forster's Howards End is a classic of English
literature reimagined for modern readers.
A tour of Italy takes young Lucy Honeychurch out of her predictable
life in Edwardian England and places her into a new world that even
her chaperoning spinster aunt cannot control. Encountering
everything from unlikely traveling companions to street violence,
Lucy faces the greatest challenge in understanding her own shifting
emotions toward a most unsuitable suitor. Since it first appeared
in 1908 A Room With a View has been recognized as a masterful
depiction of character and conflict. Known to many through Merchant
Ivory's lush 1985 film adaptation, which won multiple awards
including the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, the novel provides
an even richer experience. Lucy's journey toward a fresh, true
understanding of herself and her passions make a compelling story,
leavened by both an unexpected dry humor and a belief in the power
of love.With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset
manuscript, this edition of A Room With a View is both modern and
readable.
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."
A Passage to India (1924) is a novel by English author E.M.
Forster. Written during the rise of the Indian independence
movement against the British Raj, A Passage to India is considered
one of the greatest novels of twentieth century English literature.
The novel has also been an important work for postcolonial
theorists and literary critics for its inherent Orientalism and
treatment of race, gender, and imperialism. The novel begins with
the arrival of a young British teacher named Adela Quested and her
friend Mrs. Moore in India. When Adela visits a mosque, she is
approached by Dr. Aziz, a young Muslim physician, who accosts her
before noticing her respect and understanding of local customs. At
a party arranged by a local tax collector, who has invited a group
of Indians out of curiosity, Fielding, a college principal, invites
Dr. Aziz to a tea party with Adela and Mrs. Moore. There, they make
plans to visit the Marabar caves, but are interrupted by Ronny
Heaslop, who is to be engaged to Adela. When the day of the journey
arrives, only Adela and Mrs. Moore are able to make the trip, and
Dr. Aziz accompanies them alone. At the caves, Adela is frightened
by a strange echo and stumbles before convincing herself that Dr.
Aziz has assaulted her. The ensuing trial divides the fictional
city of Chandrapore along racial lines, exposing the prejudices and
tensions that dominate life during the British Raj. A Passage to
India explores themes of romance, friendship, race, and custom
while critiquing the British conquest of India and illuminating the
rise of the Indian independence movement. With a beautifully
designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition
of E.M. Forster's A Passage to India is a classic of English
literature reimagined for modern readers.
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.
E. M. Forster's guide sparkles with wit and insight for
contemporary writers and readers. With lively language and excerpts
from well-known classics, Forster (author of A Passage to India,
Howards End, and A Room With a View) 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."Forster's casual and wittily acute guidance...transmutes
the dull stuff of He-Said and She-Said into characters, stories,
and intimations of truth."--Harper's
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) is a novel by English author E.M.
Forster. The work was Forster’s first novel, and its success
helped launch his lengthy and critically acclaimed career as a
writer of literary fiction. Where Angels Fear to Tread—the title
is drawn from Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Criticism (1711)—is
a moving meditation on class, gender, social convention, and the
grieving process. Following the death of her husband, a widow named
Lilia Herriton travels to Tuscany with her friend Caroline Abbott.
In Italy, Lilia falls in love with a young Italian named Gino, with
whom she decides to remain. This prompts a fierce backlash among
members of her deceased husband’s family, who privilege their
honor and name over Lilia’s happiness. Although they send Philip,
her brother-in-law, to Italy in order to retrieve her, Lilia has
already married Gino, and is pregnant with their child. When she
dies in childbirth, however, a fight ensues over the care of the
boy, whom the Herritons want to be raised as an Englishman in their
midst. Philip returns to Italy with his sister Harriet, meeting
Caroline and devising a plan to wrest control of the boy from Gino,
a loving and caring father. Where Angels Fear to Tread is a novel
that traces the consequences of selfish decisions, the politics of
family life, and the social conventions which hold women prisoner
to those who claim to support them. The novel was an immensely
successful debut for Forster, who would go on to become one of
England’s most popular and critically acclaimed novelists of the
twentieth century. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of E.M. Forster’s
Where Angels Fear to Tread is a classic of English literature
reimagined for modern readers.
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 fiancé 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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Howards End (Hardcover)
E.M. Forster; Contributions by Mint Editions
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Howards End (1910) is a novel by English author E.M. Forster.
Inspired by his interactions with the famous Bloomsbury Group of
writers and intellectuals, as well as by his personal experience
growing up with a large inheritance on the family estate of Rooks
Nest, Howards End has been recognized as one of the finest novels
ever written in English. The story loosely follows the lives of
three families: the Wilcoxes, whose wealth derives from the
exploitation of British colonies; the Basts, an impoverished
couple; and the Schlegels, half-German sisters who find themselves
set between the vastly opposing classes of their peers. Much of the
novel is set on the Wilcox estate, known as Howards End, a symbol
of fortune and a reminder of the generational implications of
hoarded wealth. When Ruth Wilcox moves to London, she befriends her
neighbor Margaret Schlegel. On her deathbed, and in secret, Ruth
leaves a note instructing that Howards End be left to Margaret in
her will, bypassing her family entirely. When her son Henry, a
widower, finds out, he destroys the note, ensuring that the estate
remains within the family. Years later, when the two meet again,
Henry proposes to Margaret, bringing the Wilcox and Schlegel
families closer together. But when her sister Helen brings the
struggling Leonard and Jacky Bast to a party at Howards End, Henry,
who recognizes Jacky as a former mistress, believes he is being set
up, and breaks off the engagement. Although they reconcile,
Margaret is driven apart from her sisters, who resent the Wilcoxes
and distrust Henry. But when Helen becomes pregnant by Leonard, and
a tragic event destroys several lives, the families are brought
together once more, and both Margaret and Henry are forced to
choose between the fortune they stand to gain and the love they
stand to lose. E.M. Forster's Howards End is a masterpiece, a
brilliant study of family, wealth, romance, and secrecy that
captures the depravity of the English aristocracy without losing
what sets it apart-an undeterred sense of humanity. With a
beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of E.M. Forster's Howards End is a classic of English
literature reimagined for modern readers.
A Passage to India (1924) is a novel by English author E.M.
Forster. Written during the rise of the Indian independence
movement against the British Raj, A Passage to India is considered
one of the greatest novels of twentieth century English literature.
The novel has also been an important work for postcolonial
theorists and literary critics for its inherent Orientalism and
treatment of race, gender, and imperialism. The novel begins with
the arrival of a young British teacher named Adela Quested and her
friend Mrs. Moore in India. When Adela visits a mosque, she is
approached by Dr. Aziz, a young Muslim physician, who accosts her
before noticing her respect and understanding of local customs. At
a party arranged by a local tax collector, who has invited a group
of Indians out of curiosity, Fielding, a college principal, invites
Dr. Aziz to a tea party with Adela and Mrs. Moore. There, they make
plans to visit the Marabar caves, but are interrupted by Ronny
Heaslop, who is to be engaged to Adela. When the day of the journey
arrives, only Adela and Mrs. Moore are able to make the trip, and
Dr. Aziz accompanies them alone. At the caves, Adela is frightened
by a strange echo and stumbles before convincing herself that Dr.
Aziz has assaulted her. The ensuing trial divides the fictional
city of Chandrapore along racial lines, exposing the prejudices and
tensions that dominate life during the British Raj. A Passage to
India explores themes of romance, friendship, race, and custom
while critiquing the British conquest of India and illuminating the
rise of the Indian independence movement. With a beautifully
designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition
of E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India is a classic of English
literature reimagined for modern readers.
'"You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I
believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do
not forget that."' E.M. Forster is best known for his exquisite
novels, but these two affecting short stories brilliantly combine
the fantastical with the allegorical. In 'The Machine Stops',
humanity has isolated itself beneath the ground, enmeshed in
automated comforts, and in 'The Celestial Omnibus' a young boy
takes a trip his parents believe impossible. This book contains The
Machine Stops and A Celestial Omnibus.
The Penguin English Library Edition of A Room with a View by E. M.
Forster '"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction.
"You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves
you, and no other word expresses it ..." Lucy has her rigid,
middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with
her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered
existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the
unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Bertolini:
flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney Signora,
curious Mr Emerson and, most of all, his passionate son George.
Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy and
the repressed morals of Edwardian England, personified in her
terminally dull fiance Cecil Vyse. Will she ever learn to follow
her own heart? The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the
best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very
first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
Exploring issues of colonialism, faith and the limits of
comprehension, E.M. Forster's A Passage to India is published as a
Penguin Essential for the first time. When Adela Quested and her
elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of
Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and
prejudiced 'Anglo-Indian' community. Determined to escape the
parochial English enclave and explore the 'real India', they seek
the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated
Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are
exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz, and the well-respected
doctor soon finds himself at the centre of a scandal that rouses
violent passions among both the British and their Indian subjects.
A masterly portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A
Passage to India compellingly depicts the fate of individuals
caught between the great political and cultural conflicts of the
modern world. 'His great book ... masterly in its presence and its
lucidity' Anita Desai
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Maurice (Paperback, New Ed)
E.M. Forster; Edited by Steven D. Levitt
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An astonishingly frank and deeply autobiographical account of
homosexual relationships in an era when love between men was not
only stigmatised, but also illegal, E.M. Forster's Maurice is
edited by P.N. Furbank with an introduction by David Leavitt in
Penguin Classics. Maurice Hall is a young man who grows up
confident in his privileged status and well aware of his role in
society. Modest and generally conformist, he nevertheless finds
himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Through Clive, whom
he encounters at Cambridge, and through Alec, the gamekeeper on
Clive's country estate, Maurice gradually experiences a profound
emotional and sexual awakening. A tale of passion, bravery and
defiance, this intensely personal novel was completed in 1914 but
remained unpublished until after Forster's death in 1970.
Compellingly honest and beautifully written, it offers a powerful
condemnation of the repressive attitudes of British society, and is
at once a moving love story and an intimate tale of one man's
erotic and political self-discovery. In his introduction, David
Leavitt explores the significance of the novel in relation to
Forster's own life and as a founding work of modern gay literature.
This edition reproduces the Abinger text of the novel, and includes
new notes, a chronology and further reading. E. M. Forster
(1879-1970) was a noted English author and critic and a member of
the Bloomsbury group. His first novel, Where Angels Fear To Tread
appeared in 1905. The Longest Journey appeared in 1907, followed by
A Room With A View (1908), based partly on the material from
extended holidays in Italy with his mother. Howards End (1910) was
a story that centred on an English country house and dealt with the
clash between two families, one interested in art and literature,
the other only in business. Maurice was revised several times
during his life, and finally published posthumously in 1971. If you
enjoyed Maurice, you might like Forster's A Room With a View, also
available in Penguin Classics.
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