The Longest Journey is a coming of age classic written by E. M. Forster and first published in 1907. Trilling described The Longest Journey as "perhaps the most brilliant, the most dramatic, and the most passionate" of E.M. Forster's works. Certainly it's the most autobiographical, but its form confuses many. Full of sudden death, hopeless love, and quaintly doomed relationships, and yet for all that, it's an enormously engaging work. It was Forster's own favorite of his works, he felt that in Stephen he had created a living being.