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E. M. Forster's guide sparkles with wit and insight for contemporary writers and readers. With lively language and excerpts from well-known classics, Forster (author of A Passage to India, Howards End, and A Room With a View) takes on the seven elements vital... Read Full Overview

E. M. Forster, one of England's most distinguished writers, delivered a series of lectures at Trinity College in 1927. The lectures were compiled in a collection of literary essays, Aspects of the Novel. Forster shares what he believes are the seven important aspects of... Read Full Overview

E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel is based on a series of lectures he delivered at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1927. In these lectures, Forster presents his theory of literature and uses examples from classic works to illustrate his points. He identifies seven key aspects... Read Full Overview

E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel is an innovative and effusive treatise on a literary form that, at the time of publication, had only recently begun to enjoy serious academic consideration. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Oliver Stallybrass,... Read Full Overview

Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster is a seminal work based on a series of lectures delivered at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1927. In this book, Forster explores the key elements that constitute a novel, such as story, characters, plot, fantasy, prophecy, pattern, and rhythm... Read Full Overview

First published in 1927, E. M. Forster's "Aspects of the Novel" compiles a series of lectures given to Trinity College at the University of Cambridge in that same year. By utilizing examples from other classic works Forster puts forward a standard theory on the writing of... Read Full Overview

No writer has not tried to confront the question of what a novel is, and yet few have achieved it with as much success and fortune as E. M. Forster did. Based on the lectures he gave at the University of Cambridge in the spring of 1927, Aspects of the Novel offers us the English... Read Full Overview

Widely accepted as a pioneering work of literary criticism, Forster's Aspects of the Novel provides the critical readers with fundamental conceptual tools to approach the study of novels. His lectures, compiled in this book, are invaluable for students and researchers who... Read Full Overview

Forster's lively, informed originality and wit have made this book a classic. Avoiding the chronological approach of what he calls "pseudoscholarship," he freely examines aspects all English-language novels have in common: story, people, plot, fantasy, prophecy, pattern, and... Read Full Overview