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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 English 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 person ...more

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Average rating: 3.88 · 531,773 ratings · 37,793 reviews · 744 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Room with a View 3.89 avg rating — 207,303 ratings — published 1908 — 3399 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 — 96,366 ratings — published 1910 — 14 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 — 87,412 ratings — published 1924 — 998 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 — 61,266 ratings — published 1971 — 195 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 — 22,139 ratings — published 1909 — 1186 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 3.59 avg rating — 18,364 ratings — published 1905 — 1166 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 3.80 avg rating — 5,055 ratings — published 1927 — 3 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 — 3,120 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 — 2,924 ratings — published 1907 — 1014 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 Life to Come and Other Stories by E.M. Forster, Christopher Dilke (Contributor), A.E. Coppard (Contributor) 3.89 avg rating — 1,038 ratings — published 1972 — 36 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

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34 votes, 13.3%

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33 votes, 12.9%

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27 votes, 10.5%

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