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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 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 personal conne ...more

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E.M. Forster’s books

Average rating: 3.88 · 451,427 ratings · 26,672 reviews · 505 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Room with a View 3.90 avg rating — 178,622 ratings — published 1908 — 1364 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 — 87,665 ratings — published 1910 — 2929 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) 3.68 avg rating — 78,307 ratings — published 1924 — 1216 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 4.07 avg rating — 43,543 ratings — published 1971 — 172 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 — 15,641 ratings — published 1909 — 2301 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 3.60 avg rating — 15,665 ratings — published 1905 — 852 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 3.81 avg rating — 4,408 ratings — published 1927 — 134 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 / Howards End by E.M. Forster, Benjamin DeMott 4.11 avg rating — 3,002 ratings — published 1908 — 19 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 — 2,473 ratings — published 1907 — 1380 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 — 873 ratings — published 1972 — 30 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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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

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“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
― E.M. Forster

tags: education, educational, inspirational, inspiring, learning, mentoring

1845 likes

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

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

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Polls

Group read for September 2016 from the remaining books that haven't been discussed yet from 50 Books to Read Before You Die. Poll closes August 15.

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

20 votes, 18.5%

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

17 votes, 15.7%

Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway

15 votes, 13.9%

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

14 votes, 13.0%

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

14 votes, 13.0%

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

13 votes, 12.0%

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

10 votes, 9.3%

Money by Martin Amis

4 votes, 3.7%

A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul

1 vote, 0.9%

108 total votes

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