Forster

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Forster

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ForsterE(dward) M(organ)18791970MEnglishWRITING: novelistWRITING: short-story writerWRITING: essayist E ( dward ) M ( organ ). 1879–1970, English novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. His best-known novels are A Room with a View (1908), Howard's End (1910), and A Passage to India (1924), in all of which he stresses the need for sincerity and sensitivity in human relationships and criticizes English middle-class values

“The king died, and then the queen died of grief” is a plot, Forster wrote in Aspects of the Novel.

Barnes quotes E.M. Forster: “One death may explain itself, but it throws no light upon another.”

“You paid good money for this,” says the Vacuum Cleaner Guy (brilliantly played by an avuncular but ruthless Robert Forster).

A typical printmaker for hire, Kimmel Forster issued pro-Lincoln lithographs as well.

She spends far more time disarming her reader than Nabokov or Forster.

Edward Forster had maturely weighed the difficulties of the charge imposed upon him, that of educating a female.

Mr John Forster was about the middle height, rather inclined to corpulency, but with great show of muscular strength.

But here the conversation was interrupted by the entrance of Mr John Forster, who had returned from his consultation.

The door was reopened, and Edward Forster, with Amber holding him by the hand, entered the room.

The clerk shut the door; John Forster put on his spectacles to reperuse the letter which lay before him.

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