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The Machine Stops
E.M. Forster
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Pasaje a la India
E.M. Forster
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'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
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.
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
The Penguin English Library Edition of Howards End by E. M. Forster
'The poor cannot always reach those whom they want to love, and
they can hardly ever escape from those whom they love no longer. We
rich can' 'Only connect.' is the idea at the heart of this book, a
heartbreaking and provocative tale of three families at the
beginning of the twentieth century: the rich Wilcoxes, the gentle,
idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts. As the
Schlegel sisters try desperately to help the Basts and educate the
close-minded Wilcoxes, the families are drawn together in love,
lies and death. Frequently cited as E. M. Forster's finest work,
Howards End brilliantly explores class warfare, conflict and the
English character. 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.
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."
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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.
'"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.
Lucy Honeychurch arrives in Italy for the first time, dependent on
a Baedeker travel guide and her stern chaperone, Miss Bartlett. As
she explores Florence, Lucy realises the constraints of her
middle-class upbringing and finds herself attracted to George
Emerson, a young man also staying at the Pension Bertolini. Then an
impulsive kiss and the confusion that follows prompt a sudden
departure from the city. Back in England and engaged to the
domineering Cecil Vyse, Lucy meets George again. Caught between
social obligation and a suppressed desire for a different life, she
must learn how to be true to herself.
E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf were members of the Bloomsbury
Group and key literary figures at the forefront of an artistic
movement known as Modernism in the early twentieth century, a
movement which for English literature meant the innovative
re-shaping of boundaries in form, narrative and language.
Originally published in 1942, this book presents the historic text
of the Rede Lecture, which was delivered by E. M. Forster in the
Senate House, Cambridge on 29th May 1941, two months after Woolf's
death. The lecture was also given in an alternate form at the Royal
Institution of Great Britain on 5th March 1942. In this lecture
Forster celebrates Woolf's colossal contribution to literature as
well as challenges her work as both a fellow writer and friend.
Capturing and illuminating the shifting mood and interests in
literature at the time, this landmark lecture is a must-read for
all literature scholars.
A sunny, brilliantly witty comedy of manners, this edition of A
Room with a View is part of the Penguin Essentials collection and
features beautiful cover art by Chris Silas Neal 'You love the boy
body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you . . .' 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 Pertolini:
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 Victorian England, personified in her
terminally dull fiance Cecil Vyse. Will she ever learn to follow
her own heart? 'He says, and even more implies, things that no
other novelist does, and we can go on reading Forster indefinitely'
The Times 'I loved it. My first intimation of the possibilities of
fiction' Zadie Smith
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Maurice (Paperback)
E.M. Forster
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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 readrich in its subtle intelligence, beautifully controlled in its development, deeply movingin short, the work of an exceptional artists working close to the peak of his creative powers."Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times
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.
This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young English woman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted to this man, George Emerson--who is entirely unsuitable and whose father just may be a Socialist--Lucy is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires. Back in England she is courted by a more acceptable, if stifling, suitor, and soon realizes she must make a startling decision that will decide the course of her future: she is forced to choose between convention and passion. The enduring delight of this tale of romantic intrigue is rooted in Forster's colorful characters, including outrageous spinsters, pompous clergymen and outspoken patriots. Written in 1908, A Room With A View is one of E.M. Forster's earliest and most celebrated works.
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Lord of the Flies (Hardcover)
William Golding; Introduction by E.M. Forster; Adapted by E.M. Forster
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When "Lord of the Flies" appeared in 1954 it received unprecedented
reviews for a first novel. Critics used such phrases as
"beautifully writeen, tragic and provocative... vivid and
enthralling... this beautiful and desperate book... completely
convincing and often very frightening... its progress is
magnificient... like a fragment of nightmare... a dizzy climax of
terror... the terrible spell of this book..." E.M. Forster chose it
as the Outstanding Novel of the Year. "Time and Tide" touched upon
perhaps the most important facet of this book when it said, "It is
not only a first-rate adventure but a parable of our times, " and
articles on this and subsequent Golding novels have stressed these
twin aspects of Golding: a consummate control of the novel form,
and a superb all-encompassing vision of reality which communicates
itself with a power reminiscent of Conrad.
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A Room with a View (Paperback)
E.M. Forster; Contributions by Mint Editions
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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.
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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.
In the autumn of 1915, in a "slightly heroic mood", E.M. Forster
arrived in Alexandria, full of lofty ideals as a volunteer for the
Red Cross. Yet most of his time was spent exploring "the magic,
antiquity and complexity" of the place in order to cope with living
in what he saw as a "funk-hole". With a novelist's pen, he brings
to life the fabled, romantic city of Alexander the Great, capital
of Graeco-Roman Egypt, beacon of light and culture symbolised by
the Pharos, where the doomed love affair of Antony and Cleopatra
was played out and the greatest library the world has ever known
was built. Threading 3,000 years of history with vibrant strands of
literature and punctuating the narrative with his own experiences,
Forster immortalised Alexandria, painting an incomparable portrait
of the great city and, inadvertently, himself.
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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Howards End (Hardcover)
E.M. Forster; Introduction by Alfred Kazin
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