This collection of articles, essays, reviews, and poems, written by the author of A Passage to India, contains such well-known pieces as "Notes on the English Character, '' ''Adrift in India," and "Me, Them and You." Also collected are essays on literary figures whose work Forster especially admired.
This engaging collection of articles, essays, reviews, and poems, written over a period of thirty years by the author of A Passage to India, A Room with a View, and Howards End, contains such well-known pieces as "Notes on the English Character, " "Adrift in India, " and "Me, Them and You." Also collected are essays on literary figures -- T. S. Eliot, Joseph Conrad, Jane Austen, and others -- whose work Forster especially admired. Whether writing on the consolations of history or on the strengthening power of art, Forster's prose is at once distinguished and entertaining.
This engaging collection of articles, essays, reviews, and poems, written over a period of thirty years by the author of A Passage to India, A Room with a View, and Howards End, contains such well-known pieces as "Notes on the English Character, " "Adrift in India, " and "Me, Them and You." Also collected are essays on literary figures -- T. S. Eliot, Joseph Conrad, Jane Austen, and others -- whose work Forster especially admired. Whether writing on the consolations of history or on the strengthening power of art, Forster's prose is at once distinguished and entertaining.
