E. M. Forster

Person · Open Library

Born

1 January 1879

Died

7 June 1970

Works

454

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Writing · Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK

Edward Morgan Forster OM CH (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English author. He is best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). He also wrote numerous short stories, essays, speeches and broadcasts, as well as biographies and pageant plays. His short story "The Machine Stops" (1909) is often viewed as the beginning of…

Known for

• E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey — Self (archive footage)2019

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

United Kingdom

Active from

1879

Active to

1970

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Listeners

271

Total plays

2,655

Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH (1 January 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. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect … ". His 1908 novel, A Room with a View <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/E.+M.+Forste

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Median-joining networks for inferring intraspecific phylogenies

   · 1999 · cited 9,966x

2. Antiinflammatory Therapy with Canakinumab for Atherosclerotic Disease

   · 2017 · cited 8,604x

3. Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system: A scientific assessment

   · 2013 · cited 5,277x

4. Structure of Graphite Oxide Revisited

   · 1998 · cited 3,261x

5. <i>LMO2</i> -Associated Clonal T Cell Proliferation in Two Patients after Gene Therapy for SCID-X1

   · 2003 · cited 3,033x

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Quotes

• “I am the means and not the end. I am the food and not the life. Stand by yourself, as that boy has stood. I cannot save you. For poetry is a spirit; and they that would worship it must worship in spirit and in truth.”
• “There is fascism, leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders, and self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty — in that tinkering which is the only useful form of action in our leaky old tub — our immediate duty is to stop it.”
• “I know very well how limited and how open to criticism, English freedom is. It is race-bound and it's class-bound. It means freedom for the Englishman, but not for the subject-races of his Empire. If you invite the average Englishman to share his liberties with the inhabitants of India or Kenya, he will reply, "Never," if he is a Tory, and "Not until I consider them worthy" if he is a Liberal.”
• “I enjoy French poetry as well as French prose, and I believe that this land must have some cultural connection with the European continent, and that she is best connected through her spiritual complement across the Straits of Dover.”
• “Music is the deepest of the arts and deep beneath the arts.”
• “The really bad people, it seems to me, are those who do no good anywhere and help no one either at home or abroad. There are plenty of them about, and when they are clever as well as selfish they often manage to slip through their lives unnoticed, and so escape the censure of historians.”

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