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published
1997
(first published 1907)
by Bantam Classics
binding
Paperback, 304 pages
isbn
0553214551
(isbn13: 9780553214550)
description
Bookish, sensitive Rickie Elliot is quite at home amid the placid and scholarly environs of Cambridge. That is, until he falls for the shallow young A...more
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Read in November, 2006
recommends it for:
the creative
Caveat: Forster is my favorite author. While this is not my favorite piece of his writing, I enjoyed it. There's a lot of symbolism that I wasn't really hip to at first, but there are some nice passages. It's about a young author and his relationships with his friends, family, and art. There are some excellent insights into a creative person's mind. It's for sure one that I'll go back to.
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"If a soldier makes a mess, it's thought rather decent of him, isn't it, if he b...more
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Read in June, 2008
recommends it for:
canon-izers
Oh how I suck up these wordy early 20th Century tales of love and woe and irony.
I truly enjoyed this book, I really yearned to read it and I could not really express why to someone who would say "What?!?!? Nothing happens! It is just a bunch of stuffy people worrying about manners!".
Oh, but it is that and so much more.
If you're like me and you could really go for some Henry James, D.H. Lawrence, or some other canonized British/European/American Ex-Patriot from those times,...more
I truly enjoyed this book, I really yearned to read it and I could not really express why to someone who would say "What?!?!? Nothing happens! It is just a bunch of stuffy people worrying about manners!".
Oh, but it is that and so much more.
If you're like me and you could really go for some Henry James, D.H. Lawrence, or some other canonized British/European/American Ex-Patriot from those times,...more
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Read in December, 2007
Rambling and lacks a sense of urgency. I felt that Forster was writing, struck upon an idea (Hey--I'll send them to Aunt's house!), and stuck the idea in the book. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that--that's how writing goes, after all. But then there is the rewriting, when ideas are introduced, prepared for, alluded to, and developed. This feels like an unfinished draft to me--there are a bunch of scenes, kind of connected, but it's hard to see it as one coherent work.
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طولانی ترین سفر، دومین اثر از آثار چاپ شده ی فاوستر است (1922) که از روانی زبان و زیبایی روایت برخوردار است. در تعجبم که بسیاری از آثار فاوستر از جمله همین اثر چرا به فارسی ترجمه نشده است.
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Read in January, 2007
Wonderfully introspective, like all E.M. Forster books, but a tad more slow-paced than most with fewer of the memorable and lovable characters that you expect from his other novels.
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Read in September, 2008
Since I'm not British I think I miss alot when I read E. M. Forster. If I could read this book in a classroom setting I'd get more out of it.
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E.M. Forster is one of my favorite authors but this is probably my least favorite of his books.
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I like EM Forster books, a good one if you like this sort of thing.
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