E.M. Forster

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in London, England, The United Kingdom

January 01, 1879

died

June 07, 1970

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male

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Literature & Fiction

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Edward Morgan Forster, E.M., 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. 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 personal connections in spite of the...more

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E.M. Forster's Books

Average rating: 3.85 · 137,806 ratings · 6,201 reviews · 84 distinct works · Similar authors

	A Room with a View 3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 62,757 ratings — published 1908 — 71 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Howards End 3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 27,137 ratings — published 1910 — 189 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Passage to India by E.M. Forster, Oliver Stallybrass (Editor ), Pankaj Mishra (Introduction ) 3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 25,916 ratings — published 1924 — 116 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maurice 3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 8,474 ratings — published 1971 — 46 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where Angels Fear to Tread 3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 4,431 ratings — published 1905 — 111 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aspects of the Novel 3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 1,418 ratings — published 1927 — 25 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Room with a View / Howards End by E.M. Forster, Benjamin DeMott 4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 1,181 ratings — published 1986 — 9 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Machine Stops 4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 1,208 ratings — published 1909 — 18 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Longest Journey by E.M. Forster, Gilbert Adair (Introduction), Elizabeth Heine (Afterword) 3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 avg rating — 803 ratings — published 1907 — 64 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Life to Come and Other Stories 3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 287 ratings — published 1972 — 10 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by E.M. Forster

Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism (1 book)
by E.M. Forster, Alistair M. Duckworth (Editor)
3.5128205128205128 of 5 stars 3.51 avg rating — 39 ratings

Hesperus Modern Voices (1 book)
by E.M. Forster
3.727272727272727 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 22 ratings

Quotes by E.M. Forster

“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

tags: love, poets, romance

2,695 people liked it

“How do I know what I think until I see what I say?”
― E.M. Forster

tags: advice, e-m-forster, essay, fiction, writing

275 people liked it

“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

tags: books, literature, self-discovery

231 people liked it

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What frequently challenged or banned adult-themed book should we read in April and May?

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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

28 votes, 21.5%

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

25 votes, 19.2%

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

14 votes, 10.8%

Carrie by Stephen King

13 votes, 10.0%

Maurice by E.M. Forster

11 votes, 8.5%

The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire

11 votes, 8.5%

The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, John

10 votes, 7.7%

Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck, John

8 votes, 6.2%

Native Son by Richard Wright

5 votes, 3.8%

My House by Nikki Giovanni

5 votes, 3.8%

130 total votes

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