Forster
[fawr-ster]
- E(dward) M(organ),1879–1970, English novelist.
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Contemporary Examples
“The king died, and then the queen died of grief” is a plot, Forster wrote in Aspects of the Novel.
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.
Historical Examples
Indeed it is thought that he wrote it almost entirely from the notes of Forster.
Browning's EnglandHelen Archibald Clarke
There's Forster, with his story of Ascot, and his black-ball at Graham's!
Roland CashelCharles James Lever
Alfred was welcomed at the fort by Colonel Forster, with whom he was a great favorite.
The Settlers in CanadaFrederick Marryat
You have heard of the proposal of Colonel Forster, about the cattle at the fort?
The Settlers in CanadaFrederick Marryat
The vacant seat was given to a white representative, Mr. Forster.
Forster
- 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
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