The Life to Come and Other Stories
The Life to Come and Other Stories by Edward Morgan Forster is a collection published by Penguin Books in 1989, featuring 281 pages in English. This edition showcases fourteen stories that represent various phases of Forster’s writing career, spanning from 1903 to 1957. While only two of these stories were published during his lifetime, the majority remained unpublished due to their overtly homosexual themes, shared instead with a select group of friends and fellow writers.
Readers will find a diverse array of narratives within this collection, ranging from cheerful political satire to historical settings, reflecting Forster’s exploration of significant themes. The stories vary widely in mood and setting, offering serious and powerful expressions of some of Forster’s deepest concerns. This edition provides a unique glimpse into the author’s literary evolution and the societal context of his time.
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Representing every phase of E. M. Forster’s career as a writer, the fourteen stories in this book span six decades-from 1903 to 1957 or even later. Only two were published in his lifetime. Most of the other stories remained unpublished because of their overtly homosexual themes; instead they were shown to an appreciative circle of friends and fellow writers, including Christopher Isherwood, Siegfried Sassoon, Lytton Strachey, and T. E. Lawrence. The stories differ widely in mood and setting. One is a cheerful political satire; another has, most unusually for Forster, a historical setting; others give serious and powerful expression to some of Forster’s profoundest concerns.
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