E. M. FORSTER
Edward Morgan Forster.
Born on 1 January 1879 in London, England.
Died on 7 June 1970 in Coventry, England.
Wikipedia: English,
French.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Categories: Novels,
Short Stories,
Theatre,
Non-Fiction,
Abinger Edition.
NOVELS
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905).
Published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, in October 1905.
English: 1905;
1985;
1991;
1993.
French: Monteriano (Charles Mauron, 1954).
The Longest Journey (1907).
English: 1907;
1960;
1961;
1966;
1989;
1995.
French: Le Plus Long des Voyages (Charles Mauron, 1952).
A Room with a View (1908).
English: 1908;
1923;
1925;
1961;
1962;
1974;
1987;
1992;
2000.
French: Avec vue sur l’Arno (Charles Mauron, 1947, ed. 1986).
On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of this novel, Forster wrote A View without a Room, a short article, that he called a “prophetic retrospect”, in which he imagined what had happened to his main characters during those fifty years. It was published simultaneously in The Observer and The New York Times Book Review on 27 July 1958, and separately in a limited issue in 1973.
Howards End (1910).
English: 1910;
1953;
1960;
1971;
1989;
1991;
1997;
1998;
2000.
French: Le Legs de Mrs. Wilcox (Charles Mauron, 1950), also published as Howards End.
A Passage to India (1924).
English: 1924;
1965;
1980;
1988;
1992.
French: Route des Indes (Charles Mauron, 1927, ed. 1985).
Maurice (posthumous, 1971).
Written in 1913–1914.
English: 1971;
1987.
French: Le Retour à Penge (Nelly Shklar, 1973), also published as Maurice.
Arctic Summer (posthumous, 1980).
Written in 1912–1913, unfinished.
English: 1980.
French: Arctic Summer (Georges-Michel Sarotte, 2017).
SHORT STORIES
The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories.
Collection published by Sidgwick & Jackson, London, in 1911.
1. The Story of a Panic (1904).
English: 1912;
1923;
1927;
1947.
2. The Other Side of the Hedge (1904).
English: 1912;
1923;
1927;
1947.
3. The Celestial Omnibus (1908).
English: 1912;
1923;
1927;
1947.
4. Other Kingdom (1909).
English: 1912;
1923;
1927;
1947.
5. The Curate’s Friend (1907).
English: 1912;
1923;
1927;
1947.
6. The Road from Colonus (1904).
English: 1912;
1923;
1927;
1947.
The Eternal Moment and Other Stories.
Collection published by Sidgwick & Jackson, London, in 1928.
1. The Machine Stops (1909).
English: 1947,
1964,
1964.
2. The Point of It (1911).
English: 1947,
1964,
1964.
3. Mr Andrews (1911).
English: 1947,
1964,
1964.
4. Co-ordination (1912).
English: 1947,
1964,
1964.
5. The Story of the Siren (1920).
English: 1920,
1947,
1964,
1964.
6. The Eternal Moment (1905).
English: 1947,
1964,
1964.
Collected Short Stories.
Published by Sidgwick & Jackson, London, in 1947. Also published as The Collected Tales by Knopf, New York, in the same year. This book contains the twelve stories of the previous two collections.
Introduction.
English: 1947,
2002.
The Life to Come and Other Short Stories.
Collection published posthumously in 1972.
1. Ansell (1903).
English: 1972,
1975.
2. Albergo Empedocle (1903).
First published in the Temple Bar of December 1903.
English: December 1903 (pages 663–684);
1972,
1975.
3. The Purple Envelope (1904–1905).
English: 1972,
1975.
4. The Helping Hand (1904–1905).
English: 1972,
1975.
5. The Rock (1906).
English: 1972,
1975.
6. The Life to Come (1922).
English: 1972,
1975.
7. Dr Woolacott (1927).
English: 1972,
1975.
8. Arthur Snatchfold (1928).
English: 1972,
1975.
9. The Obelisk (1939).
English: 1972,
1975.
10. What Does It Matter? (1930s).
English: 1972,
1975.
11. The Classical Annex (1930–1931).
English: 1972,
1975.
12. The Torque (1958 at the latest).
English: 1972,
1975.
13. The Other Boat (1957–1958).
English: 1972,
1975.
14. The Second Course (1944).
This story is the second section of Three Courses and a Dessert by Christopher Dilke, E. M. Forster, A. E. Coppard and James Laver, which was published in the four issues of Wine and Food for 1944.
English: 1972,
1975 (full story);
1972,
1975 (Forster’s section).
THEATRE
The Abinger Pageant (1934).
First performed on 14 July 1934 in the Old Rectory Gardens at Abinger Common, Surrey.
English: 1955,
1961.
England’s Pleasant Land (1938).
First performed on 9 July 1938 at Milton Court, Surrey. Published by The Hogarth Press in 1940.
English: 1940.
Billy Budd (1951).
Libretto of Benjamin Britten’s opera, in collaboration with Eric Crozier. First performed at the Royal Opera House in London on 1 December 1951.
NON-FICTION
Alexandria: A History and a Guide (travel book, 1922).
English: 1961.
Pharos and Pharillon (travel book, 1923).
English: 1923,
1980.
Eliza in Chains (essay, 1924).
Published in The Dial of May 1924.
English: May 1924 (pages 391–403).
Aspects of the Novel (literary criticism, 1927).
English: 1927,
c.1942,
1974,
1982.
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (biography, 1934).
English: 1934,
1962.
Abinger Harvest (miscellanea, 1936).
English: 1955,
1961.
Two Cheers for Democracy (essays, 1951).
English: 1951,
1951.
The Art of Fiction (interview, 1953).
Published in The Paris Review of Spring 1953. Also published in Writers at Work in 1958.
English: Spring 1953 (1967 reprint, pages 28–41);
1958.
The Hill of Devi (travel book, 1953).
English: 1953,
1983.
Marianne Thornton (biography, 1956).
English: 1956;
1956;
2000.
The Creator as Critic (miscellanea, posthumous, 2008).
English: 2008.
ABINGER EDITION
1. Where Angels Fear to Tread.
2. The Longest Journey.
3. A Room with a View (1977).
3a. The Lucy Novels: Early Sketches for A Room with a View (1977).
4. Howards End (1973).
4a. The manuscripts of Howards End (1973).
5. Maurice.
6. A Passage to India (1979).
6a. The manuscripts of A Passage to India (1978, ed. 1979).
7. The Machine Stops and Other Stories.
8. The Life to Come and Other Short Stories (1972).
9. Arctic Summer and Other Fiction (1980).
10. Abinger Harvest and England’s Pleasant Land.
11. Two Cheers for Democracy.
12. Aspects of the Novel and Related Writings (1974).
13. Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson and Related Writings (1973).
14. The Hill of Devi.
15. Marianne Thornton (2000).
16. Alexandria: A History and a Guide, and Pharos and Pharillon (2004).
17. The Prince’s Tale and Other Uncollected Writings (1998).
Created on 1 July 2021. Updated on 28 June 2023.
