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If you enjoyed Aspects of the Novel, you might like Forster's A Room with a View, also available in Penguin Classics..
Maurice was revised several times during his life, and finally published posthumously in 1971.
Howards End (1910) was a story that centered on an English country house and dealt with the clash between two families, one interested in art and literature, the other only in business.
The Longest Journey appeared in 1907, followed by A Room With A View (1908), based partly on the material from extended holidays in Italy with his mother.
His first novel, Where Angels Fear To Tread appeared in 1905.
Forster (1879-1970) was a noted English author and critic and a member of the Bloomsbury group.
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This edition also includes the original introduction by Oliver Stallybrass, a chronology, further reading and appendices.
In his new introduction, Frank Kermode discusses the ways in which Forster's perspective as a novelist inspired his lectures.
Written in a wonderfully engaging and conversational manner, this penetrating work of criticism is full of Forster's habitual irreverence, wit and wisdom.
He discusses Aspects of people, plot, fantasy and rhythm, making illuminating comparisons between novelists such as Proust and James, Dickens and Thackeray, Eliot and Dostoyevsky - the features shared by their books and the ways in which they differ.
Here he rejects the 'pseudoscholarship' of historical criticism - 'that great demon of chronology' - that considers writers in terms of the period in which they wrote and instead asks us to imagine the great novelists working together in a single room.
First given as a series of lectures at Cambridge University, Aspects of the Novel is Forster's analysis of this great literary form.
This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Oliver Stallybrass, and features a new preface by Frank Kermode.
Forster's Aspects of the Novel is an innovative and effusive treatise on a literary form that, at the time of publication, had only recently begun to enjoy serious academic consideration.
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