Books by E M Forster

Book SynopsisAmong the greatest novels of the twentieth century, and the basis for director David Lean’s Academy Award-nominated film, A Passage to India turns on a tragic clash of cultures in British India after the turn of the century, at the height of the Indian independence movement. Centering on an ambiguous incident between a young Englishwoman of uncertain stability and an Indian doctor eager to know his conquerors better, Forster’s book explores both the historical chasm between peoples and the eternal one between individuals struggling to ease their isolation and make sense of their humanity.

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Book SynopsisA beautiful Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, with an introduction by P. N. Furbank.Britain’s three-hundred-year relationship with the Indian subcontinent produced much fiction of interest but only one indisputable masterpiece of English literature: E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India, published in 1924, at the height of the Indian independence movement. Centering on an ambiguous incident between a young Englishwoman of uncertain stability and an Indian doctor eager to know the English better, Forster’s book explores, with unexampled profundity, both the historical chasm between colonizer and colonized and the eternal one between individuals struggling to ease their isolation and make sense of their humanity.Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.

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Book SynopsisLa importancia y sentido de " Pasaje a la India " , considerada de forma casi unánime la obra cumbre de su autor, no se reducen en modo alguno a la simple denuncia de los estragos causados por el imperialismo británico en el subcontinente indio, sino que E. M. Forster lleva a cabo en ella la transposición poética del enfrentamiento de dos mundos opuestos, Oriente y Occidente; de dos actitudes mentales, la intuitiva y la lógica; de dos principios reducidos a norma de conducta, la estética y el pragmatismo. Un conjunto de oposiciones aglutinado por la poesía y el humor y sobre el que planea, a lo largo de toda la novela, la imposibilidad de comunicación de dos seres unidos por la amistad o el amor.Traducción de José Luis López Muñoz

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Book SynopsisE. M. Forster’s beloved Italian novels, now in a single hardcover volume.Forster’s most memorably romantic exploration of the liberating effects of Italy on the English, A Room with a View follows the carefully chaperoned Lucy Honeychurch to Florence. There she meets the unconventional George Emerson and finds herself inspired by his refreshingly free spirit— which puts her in mind of “a room with a view”—to escape the claustrophobic snobbery of her guardians back in England. The wicked tragicomedy Where Angels Fear to Tread chronicles a young English widow’s trip to Italy and its messy aftermath. When Lilia Herriton impulsively marries a penniless Italian and then dies in childbirth, her first husband’s family sets out to rescue the child from his “uncivilized” surroundings. But in ways that they can’t possibly imagine, their narrow preconceptions will be upended by the rich and varied charms of Fo

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1910, Howards End is the novel that earned E. M. Forster recognition as a major writer. Soon to be a limited series on Starz.At its heart lie two families—the wealthy and business-minded Wilcoxes and the cultured and idealistic Schlegels. When the beautiful and independent Helen Schlegel begins an impetuous affair with the ardent Paul Wilcox, a series of events is sparked—some very funny, some very tragic—that results in a dispute over who will inherit Howards End, the Wilcoxes'' charming country home. As much about the clash between individual wills as the clash between the sexes and the classes, Howards End is a novel whose central tenet, Only connect, remains a powerful prescription for modern life.Introduction by Alfred Kazan(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)

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Book SynopsisLa Lucy, una encantadora joveneta anglesa, està fent el gran tour pel continent acompanyada per la seva cosina gran, l?estricta i queixosa senyoreta Barlett. En arribar a Florència comencen els disgustos: l?habitació amb vistes a l?Arno que havien reservat, incomprensiblement, no està disponible. Dos hostes de la mateixa pensió, el jove George Emerson i els seu estrafolari pare, s?ofereixen a canviar-los les habitacions, a la qual cosa, d?entrada, elles es neguen... però la intercessió del reverend Beebe fa que finalment hi accedeixin. En aquesta ciutat italiana, on l?alegria mediterrània fa oblidar els prejudicis victorians, un sorprenent joc de malentesos suposarà el despertar a l?amor dels joves protagonistes.

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