Edward M. Forster

1879 - 1970 *

notable English novelist

English author and critic, member of Bloomsbury group and friend of Virginia Woolf. After gaining fame as a novelist, Forster spent his 46 remaining years publishing mainly short stories and non-fiction. Of his five important novels four appeared before World War I. Forster's major concern was that individuals should 'connect the prose with the passion' within themselves, and that one of the most exacting aspect of the novel is prophecy.

"If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a very few peopl... [read entire biography]

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Impossible Gulfs in Howards End -- Analysis of the interpersonal gulfs in E.M. Forster's novel Howards End
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