The Life to Come
And Other Stories
$22.99
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
8 October 2024
Summary
A searing collection of E. M. Forster’s short stories about forbidden sexuality and desire
‘Neither of them knew when the end came, and he when he realised it felt no sadness, no remorse’
Ranging from moving to satirical, historical to supernatural, Forster’s masterful storytelling is on full display in these tales of passion and betrayal. Love, death, class and race collide in these short stories, which are alive with sharp social observations and thrum with the threat of vio…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241707647 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241707641 |
| Author: | E.M. Forster, Oliver Stallybrass, Diarmuid Hester |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 8 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 196g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Critics Review
Beautifully written … has a freshness, sparkle and bite * Sunday Telegraph *
Have we been as ready for Forster’s honesty as we thought we were? … the best realized of the homosexual stories dovetail perfectly into the best of all his work. Even the earliest and most ephemeral of them will be recognized as the frailer embodiments of the same passionate convictions that made for the moral iron of his novels – Eudora Welty * New York Times Book Review *
E.M. Forster
Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970) was a celebrated novelist known for works such as:
- Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905)
- The Longest Journey (1907)
- A Room with a View (1908)
- Howards End (1910)
- A Passage to India (1924)
His novel Maurice, written in 1914, was published posthumously in 1971.
Beyond his novels, Forster’s literary output included:
- Two volumes of short stories
- Two collections of essays
- A critical work, Aspects of the Novel
- The Hill of Devi
- Two biographies
- Two books about Alexandria
- The libretto for Benjamin Britten’s opera Billy Budd
Pankaj Mishra was born in North India in 1969 and is the author of The Romantics: A Novel and An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World.
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