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The Longest Journey (Penguin Classics) by: E M Forster List Price: £12.99 City Travel Guides Price: £9.09 You Save: £3.90 (30%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912 EAN: 9780141441481 ISBN: 0141441488 Label: Penguin Classics Manufacturer: Penguin Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: July 27, 2006 Publisher: Penguin Classics Studio: Penguin Classics Sales Rank: 158566 Related Items:
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 Rating: - The Most Loved though Not the BestEdward Morgan Forster expressed his special partiality for this particular book regretting that it was never as popular as "The Room with a View". It seems, however, that his readers knew better choosing either the lighter Italian novels or later works such as "Howards End" or "A Passage to India". Forster's partiality is comprehensible when we try to read the book through his biography. On the one hand he is able to reveal here his long-term infatuation with a fellow student and go back to his university adventures. On the other hand he uses his craft to draw for himself a life he would have had he decided to become straight. The image is far from pleasant - becoming straight means being imprisoned in a hapless marriage for which the ... Read More: |
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