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E.M. Forster

Born

in Marylebone, London, England

January 01, 1879

Died

June 07, 1970

Genre

Fiction, Essays

Influences

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Edward Morgan Forster, generally published as E.M. Forster, was an novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. His humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect".

He had five novels published in his lifetime, achieving his greatest success with A Passage to India (1924) which takes as its subject the relationship between East and West, seen through the lens of India in the later days of the British Raj.

Forster's views as a secular humanist are at the heart of his work, which often depicts the pursuit of personal conne ...more

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Average rating: 3.88 · 475,250 ratings · 29,599 reviews · 544 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Room with a View 3.90 avg rating — 186,911 ratings — published 1908 — 3124 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Howards End 3.96 avg rating — 90,592 ratings — published 1910 — 2005 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Passage to India by E.M. Forster, Oliver Stallybrass (Editor), Pankaj Mishra (Introduction) 3.68 avg rating — 81,294 ratings — published 1924 — 909 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maurice 4.08 avg rating — 48,678 ratings — published 1971 — 182 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Machine Stops 4.07 avg rating — 17,418 ratings — published 1909 — 1197 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where Angels Fear to Tread 3.60 avg rating — 16,482 ratings — published 1905 — 1130 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aspects of the Novel 3.81 avg rating — 4,623 ratings — published 1927 — 157 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Room with a View and Howards End by E.M. Forster, Benjamin DeMott (Introduction) 4.12 avg rating — 3,057 ratings — published 1908 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Longest Journey by E.M. Forster, Gilbert Adair (Introduction), Elizabeth Heine (Afterword) 3.47 avg rating — 2,608 ratings — published 1907 — 1009 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Celestial Omnibus and other Stories 3.77 avg rating — 955 ratings — published 1911	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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30 votes, 13.1%

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26 votes, 11.4%

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19 votes, 8.3%

The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett, 88 pages, 1896

16 votes, 7.0%

The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen, 82 pages, 1890

13 votes, 5.7%

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8 votes, 3.5%

229 total votes

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