Selected Letters of E M Forster 1921-1970 V 2 - Hardcover

Forster, EM

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674798279 ISBN 13: 9780674798274

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1984

Synopsis

The correspondence of the distinguished British author, E.M. Forster, portrays his personal life and the development of his literary career.

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Review:

These letters confirm and broaden Mr. Furbank's portrait of a witty and complex man, passionate in his attachments, reflective and intelligent in his attitudes and beliefs, insecure in his periods of introspection and self-doubt. Forster was in fact a born letter-writer...Certain qualities in the letters are fairly constant. They are amusing, but their wit rests on a foundation of seriousness; fastidious, but their good manners are tempered by a light irreverence and a raciness which stops just short of slang. Forster was in fact a born letter-writer?Certain qualities in the letters are fairly constant. They are amusing, but their wit rests on a foundation of seriousness; fastidious, but their good manners are tempered by a light irreverence and a raciness which stops just short of slang. Forster delighted in letter writing, had a passionate belief in friendship (and a rare gift for it) and generally aimed at amusing his correspondents, facts that go far to explain the vitality, charm and variety of these letters...There are gossipy, richly descriptive letters to his mother and aunts; letters to literary friends the likes of G. L. Dickinson, Cavafy and the Woolfs that grapple with ethical or literary questions and are variously serious, witty and prankish; and letters to a few special friends that touch on the homosexual themes of his 'unpublishable' novel "Maurice," Through most of the correspondence shine Forster's antipathy to respectability and his talent for the unexpected.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0674798279
• ISBN 13: 9780674798274
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352