E.M. Forster
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born
January 01, 1879
died
June 07, 1970
gender
male
place of birth
London, England, The United Kingdom
genre
Literature & Fiction
about this author
Edward Morgan Forster, OM, was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect".
Forster was gay, but this fact was not widely made public during his lifetime. His posthumously-published novel Maurice tells of the coming of age of an explicitly gay male character.
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A Room With a View by E.M. Forster avg rating 3.91 — 6,436 ratings — published 1908 126 editions |
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A Passage to India by E.M. Forster avg rating 3.60 — 5,257 ratings — published 1924 74 editions |
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Howards End by E.M. Forster avg rating 3.89 — 4,284 ratings — published 1910 90 editions |
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Maurice: A Novel by E.M. Forster avg rating 3.80 — 1,218 ratings — published 1971 34 editions |
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Where Angels Fear To Tread by E.M. Forster avg rating 3.57 — 895 ratings — published 1905 47 editions |
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A Room with a View and Howards End by E.M. Forster avg rating 4.10 — 427 ratings — published 1986 5 editions |
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Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forster avg rating 3.82 — 338 ratings — published 1927 16 editions |
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The Longest Journey by E.M. Forster avg rating 3.38 — 200 ratings — published 1907 27 editions |
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E.M. Forster Three Complete Novels Howards End, A Room With a View, Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster avg rating 4.23 — 90 ratings — published 1993 2 editions |
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The Life to Come and Other Stories by E.M. Forster avg rating 3.91 — 86 ratings — published 1972 5 editions |
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"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves."
— E.M. Forster
— E.M. Forster
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"Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake."
— E.M. Forster
— E.M. Forster
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