Written during 1913 and 1914, Maurice deals with the then unmentionable subject of homosexuality. More unusual, it concerns a relationship that ends happily.

The rich Wilcoxes, the gentle, idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts. As the Schlegel sisters try desperately to help the Basts and educate the close-minded Wilcoxes, the families are…

This volume is a comprehensive investigation into Forster’s relationship to Modernism. It advances the argument that Forster’s fiction embodies an important strand within modernism and in doing so makes the…

Betty Jay considers the establishment of Forster’s reputation and the various attempts of critics to decipher the complex codes that are a feature of his novel. Successive chapters focus on…

Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent, sets out from Cambridge full of hopes to become a writer…

A Study Guide for E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…

Trilling described The Longest Journey as perhaps the most brilliant, the most dramatic, and the most passionate of Forster’s works. Certainly it’s the most autobiographical, full of sudden death, hopeless…

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by E.M. Forster, one of the most gifted writers of his time. Titles in this study…