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E.M. Forster


Born
in Marylebone, London, England
January 01, 1879

Died
June 07, 1970

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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
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A Room with a View

3.90 avg rating — 187,322 ratings — published 1908 — 3129 editions
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Howards End

3.96 avg rating — 90,697 ratings — published 1910 — 384 editions
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A Passage to India

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3.68 avg rating — 81,396 ratings — published 1924 — 912 editions
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Maurice

4.08 avg rating — 48,955 ratings — published 1971 — 182 editions
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The Machine Stops

4.07 avg rating — 17,488 ratings — published 1909 — 1197 editions
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Where Angels Fear to Tread

3.60 avg rating — 16,533 ratings — published 1905 — 1131 editions
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Aspects of the Novel

3.81 avg rating — 4,633 ratings — published 1927 — 157 editions
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A Room with a View and Howa...

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The Longest Journey

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Quotes by E.M. Forster  (?)
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“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

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

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

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