Where to start with E.M. Forster [CC]
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- My recommendations for novels by E.M. Forster, with particular focus on which of his books I would recommend to someone new to his work, but also a brief discussion of all six novels.
BOOKS MENTIONED (all by E.M. Forster):
Howards End
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Maurice
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A Passage to India
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Where Angels Fear to Tread
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A Room With a View
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The Longest Journey
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I am almost 50 years older now than Forster was when he wrote "Where Angels Fear To Tread." He was only 26 when he published it, and his insights into human character seem more in-depth and wise than could be possible for such a young man. He was a prodigy. "The prose in "A Room With A View" is so perfect that reading it is not only engaging, at times it is exhilarating. I was only 19 the first time I read that one. Thank you for your reviews here, and thank you for introducing E.M. Forster to some who may not have been aware of his genius.
Definitely agree he's underrated. My favourite is A Room with a View because of the brilliant humour. I just adore cousin Charlotte.
Lorraine Taylor it’s absolutely my favorite because of the humor and you can almost hear gay male humor. I love him so much. He’s my favorite author. I must subscribe. Have read everything by him even the prose. Thank you so much.
Thank you, what a lovely discussion of Forster's work! I still haven't read any of his work, but have definitely been interested in picking up one of his novels, so this is very helpful.
Yasssss! I love E.M. Forster and I can't wait to read his other 4 books! Howard's End was the first book I read by him and I fell head over heels in love with his prose. The subtlety of human interaction suffused with his brand of humor is brilliant. I wonder which of his books I'll pick up next. (probably Maurice since it's on my shelves)
I just read my first Forster book, and it happened to be Howards End! You're right, it was a really good place to start with him and I really enjoyed it--one of my favourite reads of the year so far. Also, you're really good at talking about the themes and overall feel of a book in a concise way--something I need to learn for my own videos, haha. Thanks for making this video! I'll be sure to reference it when picking my next Forster novel (it'll probably be Maurice). :)
I needed a quick, short intro on his novels. First time I've watched only one video about a topic, it was so good I didn't feel the need to keep browsing, thank you so much!
Thank you so much for this very kind comment ♥️ I hope you enjoy his novels if you decide to read them
Thank you so much for your review! Just finished my first, of course, Howard’ s End. Just don’t forget the marvellous pictures of James Ivory on E.M. Forster novels. Highly recommend!!
Great video, Claudia! I've read Howards End, Maurice, and A Room With a View; I love all three. I don't know why I haven't read the other three novels of his yet, particularly A Passage to India. I should correct that soon!
You should, I'm sure you'll love them too!
Maurice is my very favourite, I have also read Howard's End and A room with a View but I plan to read them all (and I should re-read A Room with a View) so it's good to know you enjoyed them all!
Can you send me the link of those pdf books? Plsss
I'd love to hear your view on Virginia Woolf ! Great vid ! Keep it up !
I've read two of her works so far (A Room of One's Own and Night and Day) and there are videos about them on my channel :)
Wonderful video, Claudia! Maurice is one of my favorite novels of all time
It's such a good novel!
Thank you for this video. I’ve wanted to know where to start with Forster for a while and would love more videos like this in relation to classics. What drew me initially to your channel was that I’ve wanted to read more classics beyond Austen (who I love), Dickens, the Brontes and the gothic classics that I read when I was younger, so a ‘Where to start with...’ series is perfect. More please!
Thank you so much! I'll definitely do more of these videos in the future, but I always want to make sure I've read all of a particular author's novels first so I don't miss anything. At the moment, there isn't really a classic author where I can claim that beyond the three other videos I've done in this series.
Spinster's Library I shall check out the other videos and look forward to any future ones!
Thank you so much for this video! I was waiting for this since you mentioned it.
I love Conan Doyle as well
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
The Longest Journey is my favorite novel of all time. The rumination, and the writing and the characters are just - in my personal opinion - so we’ll thought out and the subject matter is brilliant! I truly believe that it is so underrated and overlooked by fans of his works.
I couldn't get into it as much as his other novels, but it is still a fantastic book!
What a wonderful channel!
thank you for this lovely video. I love a passage to India and a room with a view. you have inspired me to read the others now x
I hope you enjoy them!
Your channel is fiercely underrated.
Thank you :)
I am familiar with the movie adaptations and I love them. I did read Howard's End decades ago and that is all I have read of his work. I need to rectify that.
Thank you, this really helped me a lot. ☺️
Glad it helped!
I've read three of his novels, and liked them all. Great tour of his works!
Thank you! Hope you enjoy the other three as well when you get to them :)
Very useful video thank you!! your voice is so lovely 🥰
Glad it was helpful!
Yeeeees I've got Maurice on my amazon cart and already adding Howards End and have A Room With A View on my kindle.
Nice, hope you enjoy them!
I started with Maurice, mostly because i read about it in isherwood's "Christopher and his Kind" and i really enjoyed it. It's gripping and such a different kind of classic and!! It has an actually good movie adaptation, which is a rarity. From there i went on to 'a room with a view', not knowing anything about it, i just found a second hand copy for cheap. I still enjoyed it, but it didn't blow me away like maurice did. Hearing the summaries of his other books here, i can see why 😅 it's definitely the one that would have appealed least to me. Despite that it was still a good read, i really enjoy Forsters humour especially. I'll be looking out for copies of howard's end and a passage to india from now on, those seem the most interesting to me.
I am amazed that you never mention The Machine Stops. I read it for my book club and it is fantastically prescient. It is a book for everyone today because it discusses our dependence on technology. A must read!
Absolutely, as are his other short stories - but in this video I specifically mention that I'm only talking about his six novels.
The amount of times i’ve had to put down an EM Forster novel to laugh out loud😹 He’s def underrated!!! Great video!💛💛
I love his sense of humour!
Andy Morales I always do the same. Put it down, start laughing and feel so happy
Thank you very much
Thanks for the recommendations about the order in which to read the books.
Thank you!
Thank you!
My husband brought home the recent adaptation of Howard's End with Hayley Atwell from our public library and I liked it so much more than the one with Anthony Hopkins, that I decided to read the book and enjoyed it thoroughly. So, I've just begun Room... I'm an ethics prof and love literature that complicates morality. I like how Forster has flawed, lovely heroines who have real regrets and loves. I love how Margaret brings the worlds of the novel together. Looking forward to more of his human insights. Enjoyed your vlog! Thank you!
I have not seen any adaptation of Howards End, but I've heard good things about both the 80s and the newer one. Hope you enjoy discovering more of Forster's work!
@@SpinstersLibrary Enjoy your reading! I am! And be well!
I've been looking for a collection of his essays + short pieces...and I can't find them anywhere! Any leads?
How does EM Forster compare with DH Lawrence? I am interested in the relationship between these two writers. Also, have you read The Machine Stops?
can you give more insight on a passage to india
Agree, quite underrated; one of favorite authors. But - then there's Waugh.... who gives you Foster but with more action in Brideshead and absolutely cuts with the Sword of Honor trilogy - though it helps if you have some familiarity with WWII England
I like wery much the content in your channel about english literature. ¿do you can make more videos about this literature?
I am still yet to read Maurice and The Longest Journey and I'm particularly keen to read Maurice. Howards End always has to be my favourite but I also love A Room With a View, I love the way the summery environment of the story is contrasted with the strange kind of darkness in the characters.
Yes, Forster is so good at this summery but gloomy atmosphere
I wish you would do a video similar to this with Arnold Bennett as the subject.
I just ordered A Room with a view before I saw this. I’m a Jane Austen fan so hopefully I’ll like it.
Totally agree with everything here :)
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His short story The Machine Stops has just blown me away.
I love it! All of his short stories are so different from his novels.
I just started reading Howard's End so I did a youtube search and was kinda shocked when you pointed out he died in 1970. Then again that was 50 years ago already.
He lived to the age of 91, and I always wonder what beautiful pieces of literature we missed out on because of his decision to stop writing novels at such a young age
The gateway drug, lol I love that.
I really love this video, I love Foster as well, although I have only read one. But I agree that people do not talk about his writing enough.
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I have a memory of watching the film adaptation of Maurice.. I'd be interested in hearing your book to movie thoughts about that one. :)
I think it's a really well done adaptation! It's faithful to the book, really well written and the characters are really well cast. The only real difference to the book is that they made Maurice a bit more likeable. In the book he's kind of an arsehole, and not the brightest.
@@SpinstersLibrary Maybe I should watch it again. But I'm putting the book on my tbr at least! :)
@@SpinstersLibrary He's still kind of an asshole though especially to Ada, his sister. The biggest difference is Riseley's arrest. I was never completely sold on Clive's change of heart or sudden "normalcy" so the adaptation gave urgency and a valid reason to Clive's decision to marry. But yes, Maurice is a bit of a himbo especially in contrast with Clive's philosophical and intellectual nature.
My issue with Maurice is that Forster creates such a complex background for Clive at the start but then completely abandons him later on in the novel. Out of all the characters in the book its Clive that I find utterly compelling. But his sudden change of heart doesn't make sense.
I think if you watch the movie it makes more sense. There is something that happens in the movie that really turns clive into the internalized homophobe false heterosexual we see in the book. The movie is also just really aesthetically pleasing and beautiful, def does justice to the book in my opinion
@@midwest_princess123 Thanks Jake ... from your namesake, Kit Hesketh Harvey (And did you know that we Harveys genuinel ARE al related? 'Battle-worthy', and clansmen of the contes de Dijon WAYYY back?) ) I did the screenplay for the film adaptation, and - thirty years later - your endorsement of it means a great deal to me. It proved more battle-worthy than as a callow scriptwriter I had realised.
#GrahamGreene on Forster:
Waterbury said: And now can we get back to E.M. Forster?
Need we? I asked.
(The End of the Affair 1951)
This was a nice overview discussion of Forster’s work. I have read four of the novels. Still have to get to Maurice and The Longest Journey. It’s a long time since I read it however, The Passage to India is probably pretty accurate in it’s depiction of India and the British colonials who served there . Forster had visited India a few times.
As far as I know, his mother was English and his father Welsh, right?
Not sure why you say his mother was Indian - according to Wikipedia she was Anglo-Irish.
Andrea Small: I am mistaken, you are right. Memory can be unreliable at times. I thought I had read somewhere that his mother was Indian. After a quick search I haven’t seen anything to support my comment.
Spinster's Library: Claudia, you are correct. My comment on Forster’s mother being Indian is wrong. I based it on faulty recall. I thought I had read that somewhere.
Mary, true, and he lived with and taught a maharaji.
I really thought that the sisters were not as rich as the Wilcox family.
The finer things club?
Am I the only one distracted by the sticker on her copy of Passage to India? eeeek take them off! I need the satisfaction of a clean cover.
I tried, but charity shop price stickers are the glue from hell that never comes off and I have destroyed so many covers this way! 😂
Too bad he wrote only 6 Novels.
I don’t like him