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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 · 510,621 ratings · 34,522 reviews · 691 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Room with a View 3.89 avg rating — 199,820 ratings — published 1908 — 10 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 — 94,184 ratings — published 1910 — 2112 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 — 85,164 ratings — published 1924 — 9 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 — 56,832 ratings — published 1971 — 194 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 — 20,174 ratings — published 1909 — 940 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
	Where Angels Fear to Tread 3.59 avg rating — 17,600 ratings — published 1905 — 1159 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 — 4,914 ratings — published 1927 — 178 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 — 3,087 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 — 2,807 ratings — published 1907	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 — 1,010 ratings — published 1972	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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54 votes, 18.0%

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26 votes, 8.7%

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, 329 pg, 1916

22 votes, 7.3%

Howards End by E.M. Forster, 246 pgs, 1910

18 votes, 6.0%

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15 votes, 5.0%

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14 votes, 4.7%

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7 votes, 2.3%

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