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This was my fourth Forster and the first for some years. It was his first novel and the themes of snobbery versus zest for life are prominent already. Forster shows his disdain for the social mores of end-of-the nineteenth-century England in his characters, who are much more concerned with what society may think than in having any passions of their own. The protagonist, Philip, has no interests of his own, except, perhaps, for Italy, and he does little except his mother's bidding. By encouraging
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