Aspects Of The Novel

by E. M. Forster

Overview

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 to a novel: story, people, plot, fantasy, prophecy, pattern, and rhythm. He not only defines and explains such terms as “round” versus “flat” characters (and why both are needed for an effective novel), but also provides examples of writing from such literary greats as Dickens and Austen. Forster's original commentary illuminates and entertains without lapsing into complicated, scholarly rhetoric, coming together in a key volume on writing."Forster's casual and wittily acute guidance...transmutes the dull stuff of He-Said and She-Said into characters, stories, and intimations of truth."—Harper's

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780156091800
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	09/14/1956
Series:	Abinger Edition of E. M. Forster Series
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	313,761
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

A multi–Nobel Prize in Literature nominee, EDWARD MORGAN FORSTER (1879-1970) was the author of many well-known novels, including Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910), A Passage to India (1924), and Maurice (1971). He also wrote several volumes of criticism and essays.

Date of Birth:

January 1, 1879

Date of Death:

June 7, 1970

Place of Birth:

London

Place of Death:

Coventry, England

Education:

B. A. in classics, King's College, Cambridge, 1900; B. A. in history, 1901; M.A., 1910

Editorial Reviews

★ 02/01/2016
Forster (A Passage to India) delivered a series of lectures on the art of the novel at the University of Cambridge, with titles such as "People," "The Plot," and "The Story." His plainspoken approach reduces the novel to its essential elements in a work that has remained relevant.

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