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Life to Come

by Unknown Author

227 pages2024Penguin Books, LimitedISBN 9780241707647
FictionClassics

About this book

<i>'Neither of them knew when the end came, and he when he realised it felt no sadness, no remorse'</i><br> <br> Ranging from moving to satirical, historical to supernatural, Forster's masterful storytelling is on full display in these tales of passion and betrayal. Love, death, class and race collide in these short stories, which are alive with sharp social observations and thrum with the threat of violence that stalked gay men's lives.<br> <br> Written between 1903 and 1957, only two out of the fourteen stories in this collection were published during E. M. Forster's lifetime- most of the other stories remained unpublished because of their overtly gay themes.<br> <br> Introduction by Diarmuid Hester

Publication Details

Publisher
Penguin Books, Limited
Published
2024
Pages
227
ISBN
9780241707647
Language
en

About Unknown Author

Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH, 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 and also the attitudes towards gender and homosexuality 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".

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