E M Forster

The Longest Journey

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E. M. Forster once described The Longest Journey as the book I am most glad to have written. An introspective novel of manners at once comic and tragic, it tells of a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent. He sets out full of hope to become a writer, but gives up his aspirations for those of the conventional world, gradually sinking into a life of petty conformity and bitter disappointments.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global boo… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Adair, Gilbert (Einf.)

ISBN: 978-0-14-144148-1
EAN: 9780141441481
Produktnummer: 19415103
Verlag: Penguin Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Seitenangabe: 432 S.
Masse: H19.9 cm x B13.1 cm x D3.0 cm 319 g
Gewicht: 319

Über den Autor

Edward Morgan Forster was born in London in 1879. 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). An interval of fourteen years elapsed before he published A Passage to India. Maurice was published posthumously in 1971. He died in June 1970.Writer, film critic and journalist Gilbert Adair was born in 1944. He is the author of five novels, including The Holy Innocents (1988), Love and Death on Long Island (1990), and A Closed Book (1999). The Real Tadzio (2001), is a biography of the boy who inspired Thomas Mann's Death in Venice. The Dreamers (2003), a tale of sexual obsession set against the backdrop of the Paris street riots of 1968, has recently been made into a film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.