The English novelist and essayist Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970) was concerned with the conflict between the freedom of the spirit and the conventions of society. Educated at Tonbridge School (which he disliked intensely), E. M. Forster went on to...

During the Edwardian years and into the 1920s, E. M. Forster consolidated his reputation as a novelist of distinction and as a persuasive man of letters. He attained the greatest recognition and authority after World War II when, except for work on...

At first glimpse, the work of the British novelist and essayist, E. M. Forster, would hardly be thought to be the stuff of Hollywood. His finely detailed novels explore the Edwardian world of society and morality and focus on such themes as salvation...

(1879–1970), British novelist and essayist. A prolific British writer of the twentieth century, Edward Morgan Forster was born in London on New Year's Eve in 1879 to Morgan and Alice Forster. His father died when Forster was near two...

Edward Morgan Forster, OM (January 1, 1879 – June 7, 1970), was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British...

After 37 years, PBS' "Masterpiece Theatre" is getting spruced up.The revered anthology series will be split into three mini-seasons, each with its own theme and host — one of whom is Gillian Anderson, already familiar to "Masterpiece" fans for her 2006 performance as Lady Dedlock...

“Your class is a cult classic …. Your class is all about never ever saying I like the tomato …. It’s properly intellectual … nobody’s pretending the tomato will save your life. Or make you happy. Or teach you how to live or ennoble you...

The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom From My Father on How to Live, Love, and See, by Naomi Wolf. Simon and Schuster, 278 pages, $24.Naomi Wolf is one lucky lass. Oh, she's had her share of troubles-like that time at Yale when Harold Bloom laid his "heavy,...

On a languid Friday evening in early June, the West Village street where Marianne Moore once penned modernist poems and Theodore Dreiser scribbled his novels was hushed and serene, like the setting for an E.M. Forster adaptation. (And, in fact, the British novelist stayed there...

Forster made his chief contribution to the subject [of the novel] in the Clark Lectures which he delivered in the spring of 1927. [They were printed unrevised as Aspects of the Novel.] (p. 73) [What we find in this collection] is an idea of the novel which will stand beside the great celebrations of the epic form. It might have helped if Forster had edited away quotations and discussions of contemporary books now forgotten, if some listener had made notes of the fine things and left the rest, as happened to...

In this excerpt, Herz discusses the doubleness of Forster's short fiction as revealed in the disjunctive relationship between narrative strategies and narrative voice .

In the following excerpt, Colmer discusses the role of place, the supernatural, pagan mythology, and the importance of the past as dominant themes in Forster's short fiction.

Essay discusses the brilliance of Forster as he developes a common and central theme.