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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
]

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
]

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
]

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]

1972
(posthumous)

The Life to Come (and other stories)
   [Order this from Amazon.com or from Amazon.co.uk]

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]

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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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