E. M Forster

A charming young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted to this man, George Emerson—who is entirely unsuitable and whose father just may be a Socialist—Lucy is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires. Back in England, she is courted by a more acceptable, if stifling, suitor and soon realizes she must make...

"The work of an exceptional artist working close to the peak of his powers."-Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist introduces us to Maurice Hall when he is fourteen. We follow him through public school and Cambridge, and on into his father's firm, Hill and Hall, Stock Brokers. In a highly structured society, Maurice is a conventional young man in...

The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster - In a future where human contact is almost eliminated by The Machine, Vashti's tranquil, isolated life is interrupted by a plea from her son, to experience the world outside the Machine's influence. As Vashti struggles to understand his desire to see the stars from the Earth's surface, a profound disconnect between their realities begins to emerge. The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster is a dystopian novella that...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 186 thru 190 - Four Lost Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60s and one from 1909 • The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster • Breakfast at Twilight by Philip K. Dick • The Magnificent Possession by Isaac Asimov • Flowering Evil by Margaret St. Clair • No Shield From the Dead by Gordon R. Dickson

Selected by the Modern Library as two of the 100 best novels of all time
'To me,' D. H. Lawerence once wrote to E. M. forster, 'you are the last Englishman.' Indeed, Forster's novels offer contemporary readers clear, vibrant portraits of life in Edwardian England. Published in 1908 to both critical and popular acclaim, A Room with a View is a whimsical comedy of manners that owes more to Jane Austen that perhaps any other of his works....

A charming, young English woman finds herself at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires when she is attracted to someone socially unsuitable.

A story about class divisions in Edwardian England, and the tragic series of events that occurs when two impulsive middle-class sisters become involved with a working class couple and a wealthy family.

Recently widowed-- and desperate to escape her oppressive, upper-class English in-laws-- free spirited Lilia Herriton finds refuge in the ancient landscapes of rural Italy. There, she impulsively marries the handsome Gino Carella. But when a child is born, tragedy strikes, and Lilia's scandalized relatives embark on a plot to bring her young son to England for a "proper" upbringing.