The novella-length fragment has now been published in a beautiful edition by Hesperus, with a foreword by Anita Desai. Forster began in 1911, after Howards End, wrote eighty-some pages of, but never completed. His other works include Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), The Longest Journey (1907), A Room with a View (1908) and Maurice (1971), his posthumously published novel which tells of the coming of age of an explicitly gay male character.Īrctic Summer is the novel that E. He is noted for his use of symbolism as a technique in his novels, and he has been criticised for his attachment to mysticism. 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.įorster's views as a secular humanist are at the heart of his work, which often depicts the pursuit of personal connections in spite of the restrictions of contemporary 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 is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society.

Forster, was an novelist, essayist, and short story writer.

His other works include Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), The Longest Journey (1907), A Room with a View (1908) and Maurice (1971), his posthumously published novel which tells of the coming of age of an explicitly gay male character.Edward Morgan Forster, generally published as E.M.

Edward Morgan Forster, generally published as E.M.

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