e m forster

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Definition of e m forster in English English dictionary

born Jan. 1, 1879, London, Eng. died June 7, 1970, Coventry, Warwickshire British writer. Forster was born into an upper-middle-class family. He attended the University of Cambridge and from roughly 1907 was a member of the informal Bloomsbury group. His early works include Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), The Longest Journey (1907), A Room with a View (1908), and his first major success, Howards End (1910), novels that show his acute observation of middle-class life and its values. After periods in India and Alexandria, he wrote his finest novel, A Passage to India (1924), examining the failure of human understanding between ethnic and social groups under British rule. Maurice, a novel with a homosexual theme written in 1913, appeared posthumously. Aspects of the Novel (1927) is a classic discussion of aesthetics and the creative process. Awarded an honorary fellowship in 1946 at Cambridge, he lived there until his death

Hyphenation

e m For·ster

Turkish pronunciation

i em fôrstır

Pronunciation

/ˈē ˈem ˈfôrstər/ /ˈiː ˈɛm ˈfɔːrstɜr/