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Edward Morgan Forster
EDWARD MORGAN FORSTER @ E. M. FORSTER.

E. M. Forster in his lifetime wrote eight novels; Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), The Longest Journey (1907), A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910), A Passage to India (1924), Maurice (written in 1913–14, published posthumously in 1971), Arctic Summer (an incomplete fragment, written in 1912–13, published posthumously in 2003), and Book of Love, two sets of short stories which includes about twenty seven and more stories; The Celestial Omnibus (and other stories) (1911), and The Eternal Moment and other stories (1928), two plays or pageants; Abinger Pageant (1934) and England’s Pleasant Land (1940).
He did also write a film script; A Diary for Timothy (1945) (directed by Humphrey Jennings, spoken by Michael Redgrave), a libretto; Billy Budd (1951) (with Eric Crozier; based on Melville's novel, for the opera by Benjamin Britten), had two collection of essays and broadcasts; Abinger Harvest (1936), and Two Cheers for Democracy (1951), two literary criticism; Aspects of the Novel (1927), and The Feminine Note in Literature (posthumous) (2001).
Other than that, two biography; Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1934), and Marianne Thornton, A Domestic Biography (1956), three travel writings; Alexandria: A History and Guide (1922), Pharos and Pharillon (A Novelist's Sketchbook of Alexandria Through the Ages) (1923), and The Hill of Devi (1953), and three miscellaneous writings; Selected Letters (1983–85), Commonplace Book (fascimile ed. 1978; edited by Philip Gardner, 1985), and Locked Diary (2007) (held at King's College, Cambridge). There are also some notable films adapted from Forster’s novels such as The Machine Stops (1966); dramatised for the BBC anthology series Out of the Unknown, A Passage to India (1984); directed by David Lean, A Room with a View (1985), Maurice (1987), and Howards End (1992) are directed by James Ivory, and Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991), directed by Charles Sturridge. His novels are

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