![]() ![]() ![]() His other works include Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), The Longest Journey (1907), A Room with a View (1908) and Maurice (1971), his posthumously published novel which tells of the coming of age of an explicitly gay male character. He is noted for his use of symbolism as a technique in his novels, and he has been criticised for his attachment to mysticism. 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.įorster's views as a secular humanist are at the heart of his work, which often depicts the pursuit of personal connections in spite of the restrictions of contemporary 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 attended the University of Cambridge and from roughly 1907 was a member of the informal Bloomsbury group. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster was born into an upper-middle-class family. Forster, was an novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Edward Morgan Forster, generally published as E.M. Their gorgeous, textured adaption of EM Forster’s 1910 novel is fierce and deeply romantic, political, emotion-led, respectful of music and literature, impeccably dressed and, in one of the. ![]()
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