E. M. Forster (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Nicola Beauman
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1879-1970
- Setting: England, Italy, Greece, and India
- Principal Characters: E. M. Forster, Lily Forster, Eddie Forster, Marianne Thornton, G. M. Trevelyan, Constantine Cavafy, Syed Ross Masood, Mohammed el Adl, Bob Buckingham
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Mothers, Parents and children, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Sex or sexuality, Social life, Novelists, Women’s issues, Liberalism, India or East Indian people, World War I
- Locales: England, Italy, Greece, India
E. M. Forster has enjoyed both a high reputation and popularity as a novelist. Several of his novels have been filmed—most notably A Room with a View (1908; film, 1986) and Howards End (1910; film, 1992). His first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread, was published in 1905, and his last, A Passage to India, in 1924. Thereafter he published no fiction, although he lived another forty-six years. Why he should have experienced a twenty-year burst of creativity and then lapsed into silence cannot be entirely explained, but Nicola Beauman makes a superb effort, as...
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