Edward Morgan Forster

Edward Morgan Forster

1. Edward M organ F orster

2. Edward Morgan Forster * Born “1January 1879 – 7 June 1970“. * Was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. * He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society.

3. Early years * Forster was born into an Anglo-Irish and Welsh middle-class family . He was the only child of Alice Clara and Edward Morgan Llewellyn Forster, an architect.

4. * His name was officially registered as Henry Morgan Forster, but at his baptism he was accidentally named Edward Morgan Forster. * His father died of tuberculosis on 30 October 1880, before Morgan's second birthday .

5. Education Forster was educated as a dayboy at the Tonbridge School, Kent, an experience responsible for a good deal of his later criticism of the English public school system .

6. * He then attended King's College, Cambridge, which greatly broadened his intellectual interests and provided him with his first exposure to Mediterranean culture, which counterbalanced the more rigid English culture in which he was raised. * After leaving university, he travelled in continental Europe with his mother .

7. * He became a writer shortly after graduating from King's College. His first novels were products of that particular time stories about the changing social conditions during the decline of Victorianism.

8. In the First World War, as a conscientious objector, Forster volunteered for the International Red Cross, and served in Alexandria, Egypt. Forster spent three wartime years in Alexandria doing civilian work and visited India twice. After returning to London from India, he completed his last novel, A Passage to India (1924 ).

9. He wrote A Passage to India (1924). The novel examines the British colonial occupation of India, but rather than developing a political focus, explores the friendship between an Indian doctor and British schoolmaster during a trial against the doctor, based on a false charge .

10. A Passage to India is the last novel Forster published during his lifetime, but two other works remained. *He continued to write short stories and essays until his death in 1970

11. Notable works by Forster Novels His first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905 ) Next, Forster published The Longest Journey (1907) Third novel, A Room with a View (1908) Howards End (1910 ). A Passage to India (1924) Maurice (written in 1913–14, published posthumously in 1971.

12. Short stories The Celestial Omnibus (and other stories) ( 1911) The Eternal Moment and other stories (1928 ) The Other Side of the Hedge The Machine Stops The Life to Come The Classical Annex The Other Boat

13. “I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.” E.M . Forster, A Passage to India

14. References https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._M._ Forster http:// www.gradesaver.com/author/e-forster _____________________________ http://www.denstoredanske.dk/@api/deki/files/9604/= 47203864.jpg http:// www.emforster.info/images/kcc.jpg https:// i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Books/Pix/pictures/2014/2/24/1393241446570/E-M-Forster-009.jpg?w=620&q=85&auto=format&sharp=10&s=e5b4eb5d503f6a728f9a4be269375b78

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