The Georgian Period Novelist : E. M. Forster

Edward Morgan Forster was a British writer who was born on 1 January 1879 and passed away on 7 June 1970. His most famous works are his novels, with A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910), and A Passage to India (1924) being the most well-known. He additionally penned many short stories, essays, speeches, and broadcasts, along with a small amount of biographies and pageant plays. He collaborated on writing the opera Billy Budd (1951) as well. Several of his books explore social disparities and insincerity. At the core of his work lies his beliefs as a humanist.

Regarded as one of the most accomplished English novelists of the Edwardian era, he was put forward for the Nobel Prize in Literature 22 times. He turned down a knighthood in 1949, received membership in the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1953, and in 1961 he was among the initial five authors honored as a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature. Following his time at Tonbridge School, Forster went on to study history and classics at King's College, Cambridge, where he crossed paths with other aspiring writers like Lytton Strachey and Leonard Woolf. After journeying across Europe, he released his debut novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread, in 1905. His last book, Maurice, which tells the story of a homosexual relationship in England in the early 1900s, was released in 1971, following his passing in the previous year.

Several of his books were turned into movies after his death, such as A Room with a View (1985), Maurice (1987), and Howards End (1992) by Merchant Ivory Productions. These films were highly praised for their impressive sets and talented British cast, which included Helena Bonham Carter, Daniel Day-Lewis, Hugh Grant, Anthony Hopkins, and Emma Thompson. In 1984, Director David Lean created another successful adaptation, A Passage to India.

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   The Longest Journey by Forster is the most divisive novel critically. The novel received good reviews but sold poorly upon its initial release; it is generally considered less important than Forster's later works. During Forster's life, opinions on the novel's quality evolved, with literary critic Lionel Trilling describing it as the most brilliant, dramatic, and passionate of his works. 

Margaret Drabble pointed out that fans are puzzled by the structure and high death count in the later part of the book. Gilbert Adair highlighted the novel's excessive intellectualism, lack of focus on the erotic aspects of human relationships, and the unintentional priggishness of its characters, which he found to be a poignant aspect.

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Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) by E. M. Forster is a novel. The title originates from a phrase in Alexander Pope's poetry An Essay on Criticism: "Because fools enter where angels are afraid to go". In 1966, the BBC produced a television adaptation of the novel as part of its Play of the Month series. A movie version, directed by Charles Sturridge, featured Rupert Graves, Giovanni Guidelli, Helen Mirren, Helena Bonham Carter, and Judy Davis in 1991. BBC Radio 4 aired a ten-part radio adaptation. Mark Weiser's opera premiered at the Peabody Institute of Music in 1999 and at Opera San Jose in 2015.