| Summary: | E. M. Forster ranks among the finest novelists of the twentieth century. In this informed and sensitive survey of Forster's works and life, Claude Summers offers a persuasive and moving account of this major writer's unique achievement. The book explores Forster's entire canon, including the short stories and nonfiction as well as the six new novels. In addition to a major new approach to Forster's masterpiece, "A Passage to India", Summers offers important new readings of the early books and of the posthumously published "Maurice", a novel of homosexual love that previous critics have seriously undervalued. Throughout, the author synthesizes recent Fosterian scholarship and adds new discoveries and fresh insights of his own. -- From publisher's description.
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