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The Longest Journey

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Kessinger Publishing, Jun 30, 2004 - Fiction - 272 pages
E. M. Forster once described "The Longest Journey" as the book aI am most glad to have written.a An introspective novel of manners at once comic and tragic, it tells of a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent. He sets out full of hope to become a writer, but gives up his aspirations for those of the conventional world, gradually sinking into a life of petty conformity and bitter disappointments.
  

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User Review  - Sistermagpie - Goodreads

I think this might be an early work by Forster--it doesn't have the weight of some of his more well-known books, but it's interesting to read nonetheless. It's mostly concerned with a sort of killing ... Read full review

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Wearing its rustic heart on its sleeve, “The Longest Journey” is not so much a novel as a treatise on the beauty and triumph of Nature as opposed to the futility of man's devotion to rules, scholastic ... Read full review

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About the author (2004)

Edward Morgan Forster was born on January 1, 1879, in London, England. He never knew his father, who died when Forster was an infant. Forster graduated from King's College, Cambridge, with B.A. degrees in classics (1900) and history (1901), as well as an M.A. (1910). In the mid-1940s he returned to Cambridge as a professor, living quietly there until his death in 1970. Forster was named to the Order of Companions of Honor to the Queen in 1953. Forster's writing was extensively influenced by the traveling he did in the earlier part of his life. After graduating from Cambridge, he lived in both Greece and Italy, and used the latter as the setting for the novels Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) and A Room with a View (1908). The Longest Journey was published in 1907. Howard's End was modeled on the house he lived in with his mother during his childhood. During World War I, he worked as a Red Cross Volunteer in Alexandria, aiding in the search for missing soldiers; he later wrote about these experiences in the nonfiction works Alexandria: A History and Guide and Pharos and Pharillon. His two journeys to India, in 1912 and 1922, resulted in A Passage to India (1924), which many consider to be Forster's best work; this title earned the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Forster wrote only six novels, all prior to 1925 (although Maurice was not published until 1971, a year after Forster's death, probably because of its homosexual theme). For much of the rest of his life, he wrote literary criticism (Aspects of the Novel) and nonfiction, including biographies (Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson), histories, political pieces, and radio broadcasts. Howard's End, A Room with a View, and A Passage to India have all been made into successful films.

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TitleThe Longest Journey
AuthorE. M. Forster
Editionreprint
PublisherKessinger Publishing, 2004
ISBN141917066X, 9781419170669
Length272 pages
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