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Maurice by E. M. Forster
Category: Classic Fiction
As Maurice Hall makes his way through a traditional English education, he projects an outer confidence that masks troubling questions about his own identity. Frustrated and unfulfilled, a product of the bourgeoisie he will grow to despise, he has difficulty acknowledging his nascent attraction to men. A ...Show more
Maurice by E.M. Forster
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Maurice Hall is a young man who grows up confident in his privileged status and well aware of his role in society. Modest and generally conformist, he nevertheless finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Through Clive, whom he encounters at Cambridge, and through Alec, the gamekeeper on Cli ...Show more
Room with A View by E. M. Forster
Category: Audio Books
International bestsellerA classic romance and social critique by the acclaimed author of Howard's End and A Passage to India. Originally published in 1908, A Room with a View was one of E. M. Forster's earliest works and today has become one of his most famous. Set in Florence, Italy, and Surrey, Englan ...Show more
The Longest Journey by E. M. Forster
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
E. M. Forster once described The Longest Journey as the book "I am most glad to have written." An introspective novel of manners at once comic and tragic, it tells of a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent. He sets out full of hope to be ...Show more
The Longest Journey by E. M. Forster
Category: Classic Fiction
Rickie Elliot, orphaned at the age of 15, finds his spiritual home at Cambridge and friendship in Ansell, the cerebral son of a grocer. Yet after university, Rickie's literary aspirations are set aside when he becomes infatuated with the beautiful yet materialistic Agnes Pembroke and begins teaching at ...Show more
The Machine Stops by E M Forster
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'You talk as if a god had made the Machine, cried the other. I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that.' E.M. Forster is best known for his exquisite novels, but these two affecting short stories brilliantly combine the fantastical with the allegorical. In "The ...Show more
The Machine Stops and Other Stories by E. M. Forster
Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
A new selection of E. M. Forster's exquisite short stories, now in the beautifully designed Penguin English Library Series 'We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now. It has robbed us of the sense of space and of the sense of touch, it has blurred every human relatio ...Show more
The Machine Stops and Other Stories (Collector's Library) by E. M. Forster
Category: Fiction | Series: Collector's Library
"The Machine Stops" was first published in November of 1909 and is the one science fiction story in this collection, pre-dating both "Brave New World" and "1984". It tells of a dystopian future - 'the machine' has taken over the lives of men and it has an uncomfortable resonance today when so much human ...Show more
Where Angels Fear To Tread by E M Forster
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
When attractive, impulsive English widow Lidia takes a holiday in Italy, she causes a scandal by marrying Gino, a dashing and highly unsuitable Italian twelve years her junior. Her prim, snobbish in-laws make no attempts to hide their disapproval, and when Lidia's decision eventually brings disaster, he ...Show more
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster
Category: Fiction
A classic novel, irresistibly repackaged for Christmas. Hot-headed Lilia is seen as nothing but a vulgar source of embarrassment to her late husband's family, so her decision to embark on a year abroad in Tuscany is welcomed by her uptight and snobbish mother-in-law. Yet Lilia doesn't stay away from sc ...Show more