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| Title | : | The Longest Journey |
| Author | : | E.M. Forster |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 202 pages |
| Published | : | January 24th 2014 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform (first published 1907) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Literature. 20th Century. European Literature. British Literature |
E.M. Forster
Paperback | Pages: 202 pages Rating: 3.49 | 1997 Users | 180 Reviews
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Forster's second novel, The Longest Journey, is an emotional bildungsroman described by the author himself as the book "I am most glad to have written." The novel follows the character of Rickie Elliot from his Cambridge days through a problematic engagement and involves compelling secondary characters such as the illegitimate half-brother Rickie never knew existed. Lionel Trilling described the novel as "Perhaps the most brilliant, the most dramatic, and the most passionate of [Forster's] works."Specify Books Conducive To The Longest Journey
| Original Title: | The Longest Journey |
| ISBN: | 1495318699 (ISBN13: 9781495318696) |
| Characters: | Rickie Elliot, Agnes Pembroke, Stewart Ansell, Gerald Dawes, Herbert Pembroke, Emily Failing, Stephen Wonham |
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Ratings: 3.49 From 1997 Users | 180 ReviewsPiece Regarding Books The Longest Journey
An occasionally tedious book on the importance of making your own decisions and living life following principles you've set for yourself, not ones that society has set for you. Not Forster's most elegant or enjoyable work. A bit on the preachy side.This started off pretty good for me, then quickly turned into somewhat of a slog. However, I zoomed through the second half and ended up liking it. Boy, what a restrictive downer of a story!
Forster's least-read novel for a reason, The Longest Journey is a seemingly plotless tale which follows an unlikable band of Cantabrigians. However, Forster doesn't seem to understand the ridiculousness of his own characters and thus expects us to care about these fools. Instead read Waugh's Decline and Fall in which similar characters are given the sending-up that they deserve.
Oh how I suck up these wordy early 20th Century tales of love and woe and irony.I truly enjoyed this book, I really yearned to read it and I could not really express why to someone who would say "What?!?!? Nothing happens! It is just a bunch of stuffy people worrying about manners!".Oh, but it is that and so much more. If you're like me and you could really go for some Henry James, D.H. Lawrence, or some other canonized British/European/American Ex-Patriot from those times, then you will like
Forster's second novel is in many ways his most intellectually and aesthetically challenging. It's a beautiful book, if perhaps not always as emotionally engaging as it is intellectually engaging, and yet the third and final part may be the most gut-wrenching tour-de-force in Forster's canon, with the final scene in particular just kicking you in the stomach with poignancy. Though it can be hard to relate to what was once a crisis in early 20th century England, Forster does a good job selling
What an odd book! Glimpses of themes Forster better developed in Howard's End.
Don't waste your time reading this book. This was the first Forster book I've read, and while there was nothing about it that would dissuade me from reading his others, there was also nothing within it that encouraged me to want to. That being said, I will eventually read A Passage to India! And maybe that other big one. But this one... it's almost remarkably ordinary, lol. Supposedly it was E. M. Forster's favourite novel that he wrote, and if that is true I suspect that's because it was only
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