E. M Forster
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Vintage book volume K-61
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English
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Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) is a novel by English author E.M. Forster. The work was Forster's first novel, and its success helped launch his lengthy and critically acclaimed career as a writer of literary fiction. Where Angels Fear to Tread, the title is drawn from Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism (1711), is a moving meditation on class, gender, social convention, and the grieving process.
Following the death of her husband, a widow named...
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The Longest Journey (1907) is a novel by English author E.M. Forster. Despite its critical success, the novel was a commercial failure for Forster, but has since grown in reputation and readership to help cement his reception as one of twentieth century England's most talented writers.
Rickie Elliot enters Cambridge as a young man, exploring his interests in poetry and art and joining a circle of intellectuals centered around, a philosopher named...
4) Panico
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Español
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El narrador de Pánico refleja la mezquindad moral y emocional que E.M. Forster considera, con suave ironía, típica de la clase alta inglesa. Este personaje emite juicios sobre todas las situaciones y personas que lo rodean. Sin embargo, como se ¡acta de saber contar una historia sin exageraciones, resuelve hacer un relato imparcial de los extraordinarios sucesos ocurridos ocho años atrás. "Aunque el hermoso cielo azul estaba arriba y los...
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"A Room with a View" by E. M. Forster is a delightful and satirical exploration of the Edwardian society, love, and the clash between societal expectations and individual desires. Set against the picturesque backdrop of England and Italy, Forster's novel is a nuanced portrayal of the awakening of a young woman's spirit in the face of societal constraints.
The story follows the journey of Lucy Honeychurch, a spirited and independent young woman...
6) We
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We (1924) is a dystopian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Written between 1920 and 1921, the novel reflects its author's growing disillusionment with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the Russian Civil War. Smuggled out of the country, the manuscript was translated into English by Gregory Zilboorg and published in New York in 1924.
In a series of diary entries, D-503, an engineer in charge of building the spaceship Integral, reflects on life...