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Available
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Collection
Publication
Penguin Classics (1987), Paperback, 288 pages
Description
Representing every phase of E. M. Forster's career as a writer, the fourteen stories in this book span six decades-from 1903 to 1957 or even later. Only two were published in his lifetime. Most of the other stories remained unpublished because of their overtly homosexual themes; instead they were shown to an appreciative circle of friends and fellow writers, including Christopher Isherwood, Siegfried Sassoon, Lytton Strachey, and T. E. Lawrence. The stories differ widely in mood and setting. One is a cheerful political satire; another has, most unusually for Forster, a historical setting; others give serious and powerful expression to some of Forster's profoundest concerns.
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LibraryThing member jwhenderson
The stories in this collection range from very good to brilliant and span the first six decades of the twentieth century. Only two have been published previous to this collection, "Alberto Empedocle" and "Three Courses and a Desert".. The rest of the stories are primarily ones with homosexuality as
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a theme and were thus not considered publishable in Forster's lifetime. Show Less
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Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1972
Physical description
288 p.; 7.7 inches
ISBN
0140433090 / 9780140433098