E. M. Forster Classroom Reader: Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room With a View

By E.M. Forster

Forster's first three novels are presented here with questions for discussion following each chapter to enhance reader comprehension and critical thinking and to encourage a close reading of the text. The book is perfect for the classroom, but any reader will gain greater insight into the novels from this classroom edition."Forster's innovation remains: he allowed the English comic novel the possibility of a spiritual and bodily life, not simply to exist as an exquisitely worked game of social ethics but as a messy human concoction. He expanded the comic novel's ethical space (while unbalancing its moral certainties) simply by letting more of life in . Austen asks for toleration from her readers. Forster demands something far stickier, more shameful: love." - Zadie SmithWhere Angels Fear To Tread is ... a whirlwind that spins around the character of Philip Herriton, who is torn between what he believes is right, and what he has been taught to believe is right. His attraction to the swarthy Gino adds an unspoken layer of tension to that conflict. It's a surprising book because it defies convention, and oscillates between comedy and tragedy. -- Christopher Bryant, Polari MagazineForster's second novel, The Longest Journey, is an emotional bildungsroman described by the author himself as the book "I am most glad to have written." The novel follows the character of Rickie Elliot from his Cambridge days through a problematic engagement and involves compelling secondary characters such as the illegitimate half-brother Rickie never knew existed. Lionel Trilling described the novel as "Perhaps the most brilliant, the most dramatic, and the most passionate of Forster's] works."A Room With a View has been described as Forster's most optimistic novel. The second of his "Italian novels," it is also his most humorous and is well-deserving of its widespread critical acclaim.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 151959979X
• ISBN13: 9781519599797
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"