Selected Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) - Softcover

Forster, E.M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141186194 ISBN 13: 9780141186191

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2001

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Book by Forster EM

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Reseña del editor

Although he is best known for his exquisite novels, E.M. Forster also wrote remarkable short stories. He referred to his stories as ‘fantasies’ and his attraction to myth and magic is apparent in many of them. Like his novels, the stories – whether they are set in Italy, Greece, India, and other places Forster visited, or in England itself – contrast the freedom of paganism with the restraints of English civilization, the personal, sensual delights of the body with the impersonal, inhibiting rules imposed by society. Rich in irony and alive with sharp observations on the surprises life holds, the stories often feature violent events, discomforting coincidences, and other disruptive happenings that throw the characters’ perceptions and beliefs off balance. This volume includes all twelve stories published during Forster’s lifetime.

Biografía del autor

Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970) wrote six novels - Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), The Longest Journey (1907), A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910), A Passage to India (1924). Maurice , written in 1914, was published posthumously in 1971. He also published two volumes of short stories; two collections of essays; a critical work (Aspects of the Novel); The Hill of Devi; two biographies; two books about Alexandria; and the libretto for Britten's opera Billy Budd.

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0141186194
• ISBN 13: 9780141186191
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224