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E.M. Forster

Born

in Marylebone, London, England

January 01, 1879

Died

June 07, 1970

Genre

Fiction, Essays

Influences

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Edward Morgan Forster, generally published as E.M. Forster, was an English novelist, essayist, and short story writer. 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 person ...more

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Average rating: 3.88 · 514,292 ratings · 35,002 reviews · 695 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Room with a View 3.89 avg rating — 200,985 ratings — published 1908 — 1625 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 3.96 avg rating — 94,580 ratings — published 1910 — 2099 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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) 3.67 avg rating — 85,615 ratings — published 1924 — 1014 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 4.08 avg rating — 57,578 ratings — published 1971 — 193 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 4.07 avg rating — 20,599 ratings — published 1909	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 3.59 avg rating — 17,730 ratings — published 1905 — 1154 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 3.80 avg rating — 4,946 ratings — published 1927 — 121 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 and Howards End by E.M. Forster, Benjamin DeMott (Introduction) 4.12 avg rating — 3,091 ratings — published 1908 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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) 3.46 avg rating — 2,821 ratings — published 1907 — 709 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 by E.M. Forster, Christopher Dilke (Contributor), A.E. Coppard (Contributor) 3.88 avg rating — 1,018 ratings — published 1972 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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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The Captain's Daughter by Alexander Pushkin, 124 pages, 1836

49 votes, 21.9%

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange, 80 pages, 1975

34 votes, 15.2%

2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 15 pages, 1968

30 votes, 13.4%

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott, 96 pages, 1884

30 votes, 13.4%

The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster, 66 pages, 1909

26 votes, 11.6%

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy, 122 pages, 1935

19 votes, 8.5%

The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett, 88 pages, 1896

16 votes, 7.1%

The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen, 82 pages, 1890

12 votes, 5.4%

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8 votes, 3.6%

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