Tim Leggatt knew E.M. Forster for the last half of his life, decades after the last of his acclaimed novels was published, and in this memoir he draws on the unpublished correspondence he held with Forster over this period, as well as journals of their travels together, Forster's own confidential di[...]

All of the relationships this book delineates, even the happy ones, are infused with a kind of tension that had never previously been evoked in English literature, a tension that eventually crosses over into violence. It is a novel of manners, written in the last years of the Edwardian era.[...]

"The Machine Stops" was first published in November of 1909 and is the one science fiction story in this collection, pre-dating both "Brave New World" and "1984". It tells of a dystopian future - 'the machine' has taken over the lives of men and it has an uncomfortable resonance today when so much h[...]

E.M. Forsters berømte kjærlighetsroman forteller om unge Lucy Honeychurch som må bruke både hjertet og hjernen når hun søker etter den store, ekte kjærligheten. Hennes begjær, hennes drømmer og hennes jakt på sannheten og ærligheten gjør ikke livet lett når hun må velge mellom sine to [...]

This is the first study of E.M. Forster's writings on English place to cover the full range of his writings. Forster's feelings for place were intense, but in recent years his sensitivity to the uniqueness of every place he experienced has largely been ignored by critics. Here, a deep locational cri[...]