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E.M. Forster


Born
in Marylebone, London, England
January 01, 1879

Died
June 07, 1970

Genre
Fiction, Essays

Influences
Joseph Conrad, Jane Austen, Samuel Butler, Herman Melville, D.H. Lawre ...more


Edward Morgan Forster, generally published as E.M. Forster, was an English novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. His humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect".

He had five novels published in his lifetime, achieving his greatest success with A Passage to India (1924) which takes as its subject the relationship between East and West, seen through the lens of India in the later days of the British Raj.

Forster's views as a secular humanist are at the heart of his work, which often depicts the pursuit of person ...more

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Average rating: 3.88 · 519,701 ratings · 35,794 reviews · 688 distinct works • Similar authors
A Room with a View
3.89 avg rating — 202,745 ratings — published 1908 — 3406 editions
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Howards End
3.96 avg rating — 95,194 ratings — published 1910 — 234 editions
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A Passage to India
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3.67 avg rating — 86,234 ratings — published 1924 — 1010 editions
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Maurice
4.08 avg rating — 58,732 ratings — published 1971 — 31 editions
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The Machine Stops
4.07 avg rating — 21,182 ratings — published 1909 — 9 editions
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Where Angels Fear to Tread
3.59 avg rating — 17,937 ratings — published 1905 — 7 editions
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Aspects of the Novel
3.80 avg rating — 4,968 ratings — published 1927 — 120 editions
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A Room with a View and Howa...
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The Longest Journey
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“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
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“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
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“How do I know what I think until I see what I say?”
― E.M. Forster
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Polls

October 2017 New School Classic Poll

 
  54 votes, 18.0%

 
  45 votes, 15.0%

The Trial by Franz Kafka, 255 pgs, 1925
 
  43 votes, 14.3%

The Godfather by Mario Puzo, 448 pg, 1969
 
  38 votes, 12.7%

 
  26 votes, 8.7%

 
  22 votes, 7.3%

Howards End by E.M. Forster, 246 pgs, 1910
 
  18 votes, 6.0%

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, 127 pages, 1923
 
  15 votes, 5.0%

Possession by A.S. Byatt, 555 pgs, 1990
 
  14 votes, 4.7%

Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym, 186 pages, 1977
 
  11 votes, 3.7%

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, 367 pgs, 1984 & 1993
 
  7 votes, 2.3%

 
  7 votes, 2.3%

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