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Edward Morgan Forster OM CH (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English author. He is best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). He also wrote numerous short stories, essays, speeches and broadcasts, as well as a limited number of biographies and some pageant plays.
Jun 7, 2024 · E.M. Forster (born January 1, 1879, London, England—died June 7, 1970, Coventry, Warwickshire) was a British novelist, essayist, and social and literary critic. His fame rests largely on his novels Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924) and on a large body of criticism.
edit data. Edward Morgan Forster, generally published as E.M. Forster, was an novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society.
A Passage to India is a 1924 novel by English author E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. It was selected as one of the 100 great works of 20th century English literature by the Modern Library [2] and won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. [3]
E.M. Forster (1879-1970) is difficult writer to classify. An Edwardian modernist, he criticized Victorian middle class mores in formally traditional novels; a writer who idealized connection and sincerity above all else, he kept his own homosexuality hidden from view but defended D.H. Lawrence ’s sexually daring Lady Chatterley’s Lover from ...
Sep 28, 2007 · E. M. Forster's career as a novelist was spectacularly lopsided. Born in 1879, he published his first four novels in quick succession ( Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), The Longest Journey (1907), A Room with a View (1908) and Howards End (1910)), had largely finished what would eventually appear as Maurice by 1914, and published his most ...
E.M. Forster has 559 books on Goodreads with 1182292 ratings. E.M. Forster’s most popular book is A Room with a View.
A Passage to India, first published in 1924, is one of the most influential novels ever written about life in India under British colonialism. It explores both British and Indian perspectives on British rule, and marks how the damage done by racism can thwart a meaningful cross-cultural encounter even between well-meaning people.
E. M. Forster, (born Jan. 1, 1879, London, Eng.—died June 7, 1970, Coventry, Warwickshire), British writer. Forster was born into an upper-middle-class family. He attended the University of Cambridge and from roughly 1907 was a member of the informal Bloomsbury group.
May 14, 2018 · E. M. Forster: (Edward Morgan Forster), 1879–1970, English author, one of the most important British novelists of the 20th cent. After graduating from Cambridge, Forster lived in Italy and Greece. During World War I [1] he served with the International Red Cross [2] in Egypt.
