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This is a rough list of Forster's writings. I'm trying to present all
of them in a much more reader-friendly/informative format than what I
had before. The material here is categorized first by genre and then chronologically
by publication date. I'm still working on getting more descriptions up
for each work, but it's very slow progress, so please be patient. :-)
Novels
Publication
date |
Title |
1905 |
Where Angels Fear to Tread
[Order
the Vintage paperback from Amazon.com]
[Order the Penguin UK paperback
from Amazon.co.uk]
|
1907 |
The Longest Journey
[Order
the Vintage paperback from Amazon.com]
[Order the Penguin UK paperback from Amazon.co.uk]
[Order the Hodder & Stoughton hardcover from
Amazon.co.uk]
[Order the Bantam paperback (smaller edition) from
Amazon.com]
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1908 |
A Room with a View
[Order
the Penguin paperback from Amazon.com]
[Order the Penguin UK paperback from Amazon.co.uk]
[Order Howards End & A Room with
a View in one paperback volume from Amazon.com]
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1910 |
Howards End
(I highly recommend two annotated, critical
editions of this novel on the "Works
about Forster" page. If you want a text with no bells and
whistles, try one of the editions listed below.)
[Order the Modern Library
paperback -- introduction by James Ivory -- from Amazon.com]
[Order the Penguin UK paperback from Amazon.co.uk]
[Order the Signet paperback from Amazon.com]
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1924 |
A Passage to India
[Order
this from Amazon.com
or from Amazon.co.uk]
|
1971
(posthumous) |
Maurice
[Order
this from Amazon.com
or from Amazon.co.uk]
|
1980
(posthumous, unfinished) |
Arctic Summer |
Short stories (collections)/other fiction
Publication date |
Title
(Linked titles below lead to more details about the collection,
e.g. short story titles) |
1911 |
The Celestial
Omnibus (and other stories)
[Order
this from Amazon.com]
|
1928 |
The
Eternal Moment (and other stories)
[Order
this from Amazon.com
or from Amazon.co.uk] |
1940 |
England's Pleasant Land
Play/pageant. Ralph Vaughan Williams composed
the music for this production. |
1947 |
The Collected Tales of E. M.
Forster
(now back in print as Selected
Stories)
This volume combines the stories of the books
The Celestial Omnibus and The Eternal Moment.
In February 2001, Penguin
released a new, edited paperback edition of Selected Stories,
and as far as I can tell, it's the same collection of stories as Collected
Tales (but newly edited and introduced by David Leavitt and
Mark Mitchell). This is good news, since the older incarnation was
hard to find.
[Order Selected Stories
from Amazon.com
or from Amazon.co.uk]
|
1951 |
Billy Budd
"Billy Budd" in this case is the
opera composed by Benjamin Britten. E. M. Forster and Eric
Crozier wrote the libretto, based on Herman Melville's novella of
the same name.
[Order the VHS video
of the opera performed by the English National Opera, starring Thomas
Allen from Amazon.com
(NTSC) or Amazon.co.uk
(PAL)]
[Order an audio CD set of the opera
from Amazon.com
or Amazon.co.uk]
[Order the Penguin paperback of Billy Budd,
Sailor and Other Stories by Herman Melville from Amazon.com
or Amazon.co.uk]
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1972
(posthumous) |
The Life to Come
(and other stories)
[Order
this from Amazon.com
or from Amazon.co.uk]
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Non-fiction/essay collections
Publication date |
Title |
1922 |
Alexandria: A History and Guide
|
1923 |
Pharos and Pharillon (A Novelist's
Sketchbook of Alexandria Through the Ages) |
1927 |
Aspects of the Novel
The Clark Lectures that Forster gave at the
University of Cambridge.
[Order the Harvest paperback
from Amazon.com]
[Order the Penguin UK paperback
from Amazon.co.uk]
|
1934 |
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
Biography of a professor at the University
of Cambridge, who was also a mentor and close friend of Forster. |
1940 |
Abinger Harvest
Articles, essays, reviews and poems.
[Order this from Amazon.com
or Amazon.co.uk]
|
1951 |
Two Cheers for Democracy
Essays, lectures.
[Order this from Amazon.com (not readily available in UK)] |
1953 |
The Hill of Devi
A memoir/essays about India.
[Order this from Amazon.com
(not readily available in UK)] |
1956 |
Marianne Thornton
Biography of Forster's great-aunt.
[Order this from Amazon.co.uk (not readily available in US)] |
1987
(posthumous) |
Commonplace Book
This edited volume compiles a number of Forster's
personal notebooks (thoughts, ideas, etc.) over many years.
[Order this from Amazon.com
or from Amazon.co.uk] |
If you wish to cite this list or use it in any other way, please give
credit where credit is due and include the URL and site name as a
source. It's unnerving to find something on the Web that uses the information
provided here (or anywhere else on the site) -- with the same wording,
no less -- without my knowledge. I would appreciate it if you wrote to
me to let me know. For more information, please see the site
disclaimer.
Most of these books are in print and are readily available in good bookstores.
You should be able to find all of them in a good public or university
library, either locally or through inter-library loan.
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