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E.M. Forster

 

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E.M. Forster : Howard's End

'Putting my weakest books to the wall last night I came across a copy of "Howard's End" and had a look into it. But it's not good enough. E.M.Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. He's a rare fine hand at that. Feel this teapot. Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain't going to be no tea.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield      Print: Book

  

E.M. Forster : A Passage to India

'Spender cut his tobacco allowance down to one pipeful a day in order to take with him Tolstoy's "War and Peace" and Forster's "A Passage to India". These were a great boon to us in our few bouts of bad weather,though Tilman and I felt ourselves morally obliged to pay with tobacco for the luxury of reading.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of Shaksgam Expedition     Print: Book

  

E.M. Forster : Celestial Omnibus, The

'the short stories she did know, from Downe days, were Richard Middleton's colection "The Ghost Ship" and E.M. Forster's "The Celestial Omnibus".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Bowen      Print: Book

 

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