The New Collected Short Stories - EM Forster torrent

E.M. Forster
The New Collected Short Stories
Sidgwick & Jackson, 1985
Formats: epub & mobi
  
Forster's short stories are amusing, profound, lighthearted, mysterious, wise and witty. He was a master of the art. This new collection of his stories is the most comprehensive collection available. Besides the classic anthologies originally published as The Celestial Omnibus and The Eternal Moment, it includes the three most important stories published after Forster's death: ‘Dr Woolacott’, ‘The Life to Come’ and ‘The Other Boat’.
‘These fantasies . . .’ said E.M. Forster in his introduction to the first edition of Collected Short Stories in 1947, ‘. . . represent all that I have accomplished in a particular line.’ This was true in its way, but there was a parallel, hidden line of fiction-writing, on the theme of homosexual love, which Forster kept private during his lifetime, showing his work only to selected friends. T.E. Lawrence, for instance, wrote to Forster that ‘Dr Woolacott’ was the ‘most powerful thing I ever read . . . more charged with the real high explosive than anything I've ever met yet.’
P.N. Furbank, Reader in Literature at the Open University and author of E.M. Forster: A Life, has written a valuable introduction to this new edition which evaluates the short stories in the context of Forster's life and his other writing.

CONTENTS

Publishing history of the stories 6
Introduction to the new collection by P.N. Furbank 7
Introduction to the original collection by E.M. Forster 14

THE CELESTIAL OMNIBUS
The Story of a Panic 18
The Other Side of the Hedge 40
The Celestial Omnibus 46
Other Kingdom 62
The Curate’s Friend 86
The Road from Colonus 94

THE ETERNAL MOMENT
The Machine Stops 108
The Point of It 141
Mr Andrews 157
Co-ordination 162
The Story of the Siren 169
The Eternal Moment 177

STORIES PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY
Dr Woolacott 208
The Life to Come 221
The Other Boat 238