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Howards End by E.M. Forster

What is the name of the home Margaret never gets to live in?

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In E.M. Forster's book A Room With a View, what is the name of Eleanor Lavish's novel?

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Which E.M. Forster novel was published in 1971, after his death?

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Which travel guidebook accompanies Charlotte Bartlett on her trip through Italy in E.M. Forster's A Room With a View?

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Who is the intrepid "novel-writer" in E.M. Forster's "A Room With a View"?

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What is the occasion which causes Miss Lucy Honeychurch to faint and Mr George Emerson to carry her away in E.M. Forster's "A Room With a View"?

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George and I both know this, but why does it distress him? We
know that we come from the winds, and that we shall return to
them; that all life is perhaps a knot, a tangle, a blemish in the
eternal smoothness. But why should this make us unhappy? Let us rather love one another, and work and rejoice. I don't believe in this world sorrow."

Who in E.M. Forster's "A Room With a View" doesn't believe in this "world sorrow"?

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What is the name of the famous guidebooks that feature in E.M. Forster novels: "Where Angels Fear To Tread" and "A Room With a View"?

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Which 1913/1914 E.M. Forster novel, which dealt with homosexuality, was not published until 1971?

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What E.M. Forster novel depicts the battles of the Schlegels and the Wilcoxes over a country house?

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Which gay-themed novel was not published until after its author's death?

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Alec Scudder's literary paramour?

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In E.M. Forster's A Passage to India much of the story takes place in which fictional Indian city?

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Whose first novel was called The Voyage Out?

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Eleanor Lavish, a bold lady novelist, is proud of her foresight in bringing which following item(s) with her on an excursion:

E.M. Forster
A Room With a View

Eleanor Lavish, a bold lady novelist, is proud of her foresight in bringing which following item(s) with her on an excursion:

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E.M. Forster
A Room With a View

What is the name of Lucy's older cousin and chaperone?

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E.M. Forster
A Room With a View

Why does Lucy faint in the Piazza Signoria in Florence?

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E.M. Forster
A Room With a View

George Emerson tells Lucy that "something tremendous has happened" to them and that he "means to find out what it is." Where are they when they share this moment?

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E.M. Forster
A Room With a View

Who is Lucy's fiance?

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What does Adela Quested accuse Dr. Aziz of in "A Passage to India" by E.M. Forster?

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In Howard's End, where does Paul go to seek his fortune?

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Which novelist became friends with Henry James after sending him one of his novels in 1896 with a letter, saying that James's characters had stood "consoling by my side under many skies. They have lived with me, faithful and serene--with the bright serenity of Immortals. And to you thanks are due for such glorious companionship"?

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Herman Melville's last novel, Billy Budd, Sailor, was turned into an opera with music by Benjamin Britten in 1951. Which famous novelist helped turning the novel into a libretto; in fact, he originally inspired Britten to consider the Melville work for an opera?

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Which novelist claimed (probably untruthfully) to have been the inspiration for Merton Densher in Henry James's novel, The Wings of the Dove, on the basis that they were both "longish, leanish, fairish"?

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Which writer was responsible for introducing the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy to the English-speaking world during the 1920s?

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In A Passage to India, to which faith group does the physician, Dr. Aziz, belong?

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The Hogarth Press publishing house was famously founded by Virginia Woolf and her husband Leonard, and named for their home at the time, where the enterprise was started.

After the business grew and moved, however, the actual printing press used eventually ended up in ____________, the home of a (very) close friend of the couple, _________________, where it is still exhibited today.

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The manor houses of Knole and Sissinghurst are (arguably) "must-sees" not only for those interested in English history and in landscaping but also for those interested in English literature, because they were both prominent stations in the life of ...

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Which book did Virginia Woolf call "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people"?

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Which author, upon rereading one of his works a few years after it was written, declared himself "appalled" by it and, in the preface to a later edition, appended the explanation that the novel had been written during

"a bleak period of present privation and threatening disaster — the period of soya beans and Basic English — and in consequence the book is infused with a kind of gluttony, for food and wine, for the splendours of the recent past, and for rhetorical and ornamental language which now, with a full stomach, I find distasteful."

(Note: Notwithstanding the author's own assessment, the novel in question has long come to be considered a classic of British literature and is included, inter alia, in Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels.)

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