English novelist, short story writer and essayist (1879–1970).

Major novelist of the early 20th century; notable novels include Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). He collaborated on the libretto for Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd (with Eric Crozier). He published essays and shorter works throughout the mid-20th century and died in 1970.

Reviews emphasize Forster's elegant, balanced prose and recurring thematic concerns: social convention vs. instinct, culture clashes, and finely observed characters. A Passage to India is highlighted for its complexity and symbolism; A Room with a View for its genteel Edwardian social criticism; The Longest Journey as a semi-autobiographical, introspective work. Overall the critics on DeBaser praise empathy, lyric description, and moral nuance.

For:Readers of classic English literature, students of early-20th-century fiction, book-club members

 Those who do not love "slowness," those who want books where something happens at every line, would probably do better to avoid Edward Morgan Forster.

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 A Room with a View is a novel that features the typical English woman of the Edwardian age, torn between two diametrically opposed men and oppressed by the era's conventions and the family women's attempts at manipulation.

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 Starting from the sublime cinematic adaptation of A Passage to India directed by David Lean (1984), within just over a few years, five out of six novels by Edward Morgan Forster made it to the big screen, gaining renewed popularity through it.

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 Forster (1891-1970) debuted at the beginning of the 1900s with novels that depict English society during the transition from the reign of Queen Victoria (who died in 1901), a period marked by strong morality in customs, to that of her son, King Edward VII, who was somewhat more tolerant:

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