It was in this year that he returned to England and delivered a series of lectures at Working Men's College. Cambridge is the setting for The Longest Journey (1907). He lived for a time in Italy, the scene of two of his early novels: Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), and A Room with a View (1908). A different atmosphere awaited him at King's College, Cambridge, which he enjoyed thoroughly.Īfter graduation, he began to write short stories. He attended Tonbridge School, which he hated he caricatured what he termed 'public school behavior' in several of his novels.

He died in June 1970.Edward Morgan Forster was born in London in 1879, the son of an architect. He also published two volumes of short stories two collections of essays a critical work, Aspects of the Novel The Hill of Devi, a fascinating record of two visits Forster made to the Indian State of Dewas Senior two biographies two books about Alexandria (where he worked for the Red Cross in the First World War) and, with Eric Crozier, the libretto for Britten's opera Billy Budd. Maurice, his novel on a homosexual theme, finished in 1914, was published posthumously in 1971. It won both the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. An interval of fourteen years elapsed before he published A Passage to India. He wrote six novels, four of which appeared before the First World War, Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), The Longest Journey (1907), A Room with a View (1908), and Howard's End (1910). I had better add that I am quite sure I am not a great novelist.' Eminent critics and the general public have judged otherwise and in his obituary The Times called him 'one of the most esteemed English novelists of his time'. I write for two reasons: partly to make money and partly to win the respect of people whom I respect.

Interviewed by the BBC on his eightieth birthday, he said: 'I have not written as much as I'd like to. He declared that his life as a whole had not been dramatic, and he was unfailingly modest about his achievements. With King's he had a lifelong connection and was elected to an Honorary Fellowship in 1946. Edward Morgan Forster was born in London in 1879, attended Tonbridge School as a day boy, and went on to King's College, Cambridge, in 1897.

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