E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Lucy Honeychurch, a young middle-class girl, travels with her spinster cousin, Charlotte Bartlett, to Florence where they are on holiday at an Italian pension set up specifically for vacationers from Great Britain. There Lucy meets Mr. Emerson and his son, George, whom she encounters quite unexpectedly on walks and carriage rides. George and Lucy have unsuspected, intimate talks which happen without any intention of hypothetical conclusion. George...

In this hard-hitting novel, first published in 1924, the murky personal relationship between an Englishwoman and an Indian doctor mirrors the troubled politics of colonialism. Adela Quested and her fellow British travelers, eager to experience the "real" India, develop a friendship with the urbane Dr. Aziz. While on a group outing, Adela and Dr. Aziz visit the Marabar caves together. As they emerge, Adela accuses the doctor of assaulting her. While...

E. M. Forster's The Longest Journey is a searching meditation on the costs of conformity and the elusive pursuit of authenticity in Edwardian England. The story, Forster's favorite among his own novels, centers on Frederick (Rickie) Elliot, a physically frail and introspective Cambridge graduate, whose aspirations as a writer are thwarted by the suffocating expectations of family and society. Rickie's ill-fated marriage to the pragmatic Agnes Pembroke...

A collection of two classic novels by novelist, E.M. Forster, of English women visiting Italy, including "A Room With a View, " and "Where Angels Fear to Tread."

"The work of an exceptional artist working close to the peak of his powers."--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist introduces us to Maurice Hall when he is fourteen. We follow him through public school and Cambridge, and on into his father's firm, Hill and Hall, Stock Brokers. In a highly structured society, Maurice is a conventional young man...