E. M. Forster

Born in London, son of an architect. He was to have been named Henry, but was baptised Edward by accident.

He attended Tonbridge[?] School in Kent. At King's College, Cambridge in 1901, he became involved with a group known as the Cambridge Conversazione Society. Many of its members went on to form the Bloomsbury group, of which Forster was also a member. Forster was also a member of an informal group of gay intellectuals which included Siegfried Sassoon and J. R. Ackerley.

He travelled in Egypt, Germany and India. Died on June 7 in Coventry.

Works

Novels

• Where Angels Fear to Tread 1905 (filmed by Charles Sturridge[?] in 1991)
• The Longest Journey 1907
• A Room with a View 1908 (filmed by James Ivory[?], Ismail Merchant[?] and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala[?] in 1986, starring Helena Bonham Carter)
• Howards End 1910 (filmed by James Ivory[?], Ismail Merchant[?] and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala[?] in 1992)
• A Passage to India 1924 (filmed by David Lean in 1984)
• Maurice (written 1913-1914, published posthumously in 1971)
• Arctic Summer 1980 (posthumous, unfinished)

Short Stories

• The Celestial Omnibus (and other stories) 1911
• The Eternal Moment (and other stories) 1928
• Collected Short Stories (1947) - a combination of the above two titles, containing:
  • The Story of A Panic
  • The Other Side Of The Hedge
  • The Celestial Omnibus
  • Other Kingdom
  • The Curate's Friend
  • The Road From Colonus
  • The Machine Stops
  • The Point Of It
  • Mr Andrews
  • Co-ordination
  • The Story Of The Siren
  • The Eternal Moment
• The Life to Come (and other stories) 1972 (posthumous)

Plays

• England's Pleasant Land 1940

Libretto

• Billy Budd 1951 (based on Melville's novel, for the opera by Britten)

Essays

• Alexandria: A History and Guide 1922
• Pharos and Pharillon (A Novelist's Sketchbook of Alexandria Through the Ages) 1923
• Aspects of the Novel 1927
• Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson 1934
• Abinger Harvest 1940
• Two Cheers for Democracy 1951
• The Hill of Devi 1953
• Marianne Thornton, A Domestic Biography 1956
• Commonplace Book 1987 (posthumous)

External Links

• http://www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/forster.htm
• "Only Connect", The unofficial Forster site: http://www.musicandmeaning.com/forster/
• Aspects of E.M. Forster: http://emforster.de/
• Howards End (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=942)
• The Longest Journey (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=1194)
• A Room With A View (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=2022)
• Where Angels Fear To Tread (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=1779)