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Description edit
P. N. Furbank has fashioned a major biography of E. M. Forster, the renowned author of A PASSAGE TO INDIA, ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL, and other notable books of this century, drawing for the first time on Forster's diaries, personal correspondence, and other sources to produce an intimate portrait... read more
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People edit
- E. M. Forster: Add a description of this character.
- J. R. Ackerley
- Bob Buckingham
- Masood
- Dickinson
- T. E. Lawrence
- Mohammed
- Isherwood
- William Plomer
- Laura
- Maurice
- H.h.
- Monie
- Lily
- Joe Acker
- Reid
- G. M. Trevelyan
- Maimie
- Daley
- Sprott
- Farrer
- Auden
- Leslie
- Sassoon
- Harry
- James
- Cavafy
- Saeed
- Marianne
- Charles
- Lytton Strachey
- Malcolm Darling
- Roger Fry
- Carpenter
- Abinger
- Moore
- Elizabeth
- Keynes
- Percy
- Kidd
Setting & Locations edit
- India
- Cambridge
- England
- London
- Dewas
- Egypt
- Italy
- West Hackhurst
- Alexandria
- Weybridge
- America
- Hyderabad
- Tonbridge
- Paris
- Britain
- Greece
- Belfast
- Europe
- Aligarh
- Lahore
- Guest House
- Germany
- Florence
- France
- Longest Journey
- Amritsar
- Clapham
- Turkey
- Indore
- Coventry
- Virginia Woolf
- Raja
- Delhi
- Cairo
- Aldeburgh
- Stevenage
- China
- Bombay
- New York
- Hammersmith
- Sydney
- Hall
- Oxford
- Dorking
- Salisbury
- Tunbridge Wells
- Heaven
First Sentence edit
E. M. Forster's last book of substance was a biography of his great-aunt, Marianne Thornton.
Table of Contents edit
Note on Unpublished Sources
Acknowledgements
Family Trees
VOLUME ONE
1 A Birth and a Death
2 Childhood
3 School
4 Cambridge
5 Italy
6 A Choice of Landscapes
7 Elizabeth' s German Garden
8 Where Angels Fear to Tread
9 Pessimism in Literature and Optimism in Life
10 'An Advance to a Narrower Outlook'
11 The Year of Howard's End
12 ' A Sense of Unused Strength'
13 Adrift in India
14 Maurice
VOLUME TWO
1 Facing Facts
2 Alexandria
3 Sins of Empire
4 The Maharaja's Secretary
5 A Passage to India
6 A Section House in Hammersmith
7 'Saving Civilization'
8 Trees
9 The Last Parade
10 A Visit to Ferney
11 The Reluctant Lion
12 Writing Again
13 E. M. Forster Described
12 Last Years
Notes
Appendix: The Maharaja of Dewas
Index
Series & Lists edit
Authors & Contributors edit
- Philip Nicholas Furbank (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1978
ISBN: 0151287597
Page Count: 359
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1978
ISBN: 0151287597
Page Count: 359
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PR6011 .O58 Z655 1978
- Dewey: 823.912
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