The life to come, and other short stories / E.M. Forster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970.

Contributor:

Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay men's writings, English.

Great Britain--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.

Great Britain.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xxi, 240 pages ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, 1987, ©1972.

Summary:

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 Most of the other stories remained unpublished because of their overtly homosexual themes; instead they were shown to an appreciative circle of friends and fellow writers, including Christopher Isherwood,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.

Contents:

Ansell

Albergo Empedocle

The purple envelope

The helping hand

The rock

The life to come

Dr. Woolacott

Arthur Snatchfold

The obelisk

What does it matter? : a morality

The classical annex

The torque

The other boat.

Three courses and a dessert : being a new and gastronomic version of the old game of consequences. First course / Christopher Dilke

The second course / E.M. Forster

The third course / A.E. Coppard

The dessert / James Laver.

Local Notes:

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.

ISBN:

0393304426

9780393304428

OCLC:

17527069