Widowed Lilia Herriton meets a young handsome Italian during her travels in Tuscany. She soon falls in love with both Italy and the young Gino and decides to stay there. Her dead husband's family is furious. Lilia's brother-in-law Philip is sent to Italy in attempts to break the Italian romance, but he arrives too late. Lilia had already married the Italian and becomes pregnant again.

This novel is set in British India and deals with the themes of friendship, love, and betrayal. It opens on a train journey from Delhi to a southern Indian hill station. A British wayfarer, Dr. Aziz, meets a Mrs. Moore and her daughter on the train and befriends them.A Passage to India is not only a novel about the disillusionment of Englishmen in colonial India, but also about self-discovery, personal relationships, and humanistic philosophy.

A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the restrained culture of Edwardian era England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. Merchant Ivory produced an award-winning film adaptation in 1985. The Modern Library ranked A Room with a View 79th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century (1998).

A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the restrained culture of Edwardian era England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. Merchant-Ivory produced an award-winning film adaptation in 1985.

Journey into the heart of Edwardian society with "A Room with a View" by E. M. Forster. Follow Lucy Honeychurch, a young Englishwoman, as she navigates the confines of social convention and her own desires. During a transformative trip to Italy, Lucy encounters George Emerson, whose passionate outlook on life clashes with her intended, the priggish Cecil Vyse. Torn between tradition and the call of her true self, Lucy's journey is a rich exploration of love, freedom, and self-discovery set...

Miss Lucy Honeychurch lives the well-ordered life of a typical Edwardian middle-class miss -- quiet, sedate, boring. On a trip to Florence with her older cousin Charlotte, Lucy meets the eccentric Mr. Emerson and his son George, who offer to switch rooms with the ladies so they can have a better view of the river Arno. This small gesture marks the beginning of Lucy's journey of self-discovery as she finds her passion and voice in a world that's still very much stuck in the past.A d...

Maurice is heartbroken over unrequited love, which opened his heart and mind to his own sexual identity. In order to be true to himself, he goes against the grain of society's often unspoken rules of class, wealth, and politics.Forster understood that his homage to same-sex love, if published when he completed it in 1914, would probably end his career. Thus, Maurice languished in a drawer for fifty-seven years, the author requesting it be published only after his death (alo...

E. M. Forster’s celebrated social comedy explores romantic intrigue and prim propriety among a colorful cast of Edwardian characters. Lucy Honeychurch, a young English woman traveling in Italy with her stuffy chaperone aunt, finds herself constrained by the claustrophobic influence of her British guardians and attracted to the free-spirited George Emerson, whose family’s radical politics make him entirely unsuitable. Sharing a spontaneous moment of passion with him in the Italian countrysi...

"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928. After being voted one of the best novellas up to 1965, it was included that same year in the populist anthology Modern Short Stories.[1] In 1973 it was also included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two.The story, set in a wor...

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One of E. M. Forster's most celebrated novels, A Room With a View is the story of a young English middle-class girl, Lucy Honeychurch. While vacationing in Italy, Lucy meets and is wooed by two gentlemen, George Emerson and Cecil Vyse. After turning down Cecil Vyse's marriage proposals twice Lucy finally accepts. Upon hearing of the engagement George protests and confesses his true love for Lucy. Lucy is torn between the choice of marrying Cecil, who is a more socially acceptable mate, and...

Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) is a novel by E. M. Forster. The title comes from a line in Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism: "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread".In 1991 it was made into a film by Charles Sturridge, starring Rupert Graves, Giovanni Guidelli, Helen Mirren, Helena Bonham Carter, and Judy Davis. A ten-part radio adaptation of the novel was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. An opera based on the novel by Mark Weiser was premiered at the Peabody Institute of ...