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TIMES B⁰OK REVIEWItigm  \nForster's renowned guide to writing sparkles with wit andinsight for contemporary writers and readers.With lively lan-guage and excerpts from well-known classics,Forster takes onthe seven elements vital to a novel:story,people,plot.fantasy.prophecy,pattern,and rhythm.He not only defines and explains suchterms as \"round\"characters versus \"flat\"characters(and why both areneeded for an effective novel),but also provides examples of writingfrom such literary greats as Dickens and Austen.Forster's originalcommentary illuminates and entertains without lapsing into compli-cated,scholarly rhetoric,coming together in a key volume on writingby a novelist Graham Greene called a \"gentle genius.\"  \n\"Forster's casual and wittily acute guidance...transmutesthe dull stuff of He-said and She-said into characters,stories,andintimations of truth.\"-JACQUEs BARZUN,Harper's  \n\"A shining epitome...Potent,daring,explicit,and personal.\"-PAUL WEST,author of The Secret Lives of Words  \nEDWARD MoRGAN FoRSTER was born in 1879 in London andattended King's College,Cambridge,where he later became an hon-orary Fellow.After leaving Cambridge,Forster lived in Greece andItaly as well as Egypt and India.He is the author of six novels.WhereAngels Fear to Tread.A Room with a View.Howards End,Maurice,APassage to India,and The Longest Journey.as well as numerous essaysand short-story collections.He died in 1970 in Coventry.England.  \nCover photograph o Stone/Paul TaylorCover design by Claudine Guerguerian  \nA HARVEST BOOKHARCOURT.INC.  \nwww.HarcourtBooks.com  \nASPECTS OF THE NOVEL  \nE.M.Forster,one of England's most distinguishedwriters,was born in 1879 and attended King's College,Cambridge,of which he was an honorary Fellow.Hewas named to membership in the Order of Companionsof Honor by the Queen in 1953.He wrote his firstnovel,Where Angels Fear to Tread,at twenty-six,fol-lowed by A Room with a View in 1908,Howards Endin 1910,and other novels and critical essays.These in-clude A Passage to India(1924),Aspects of the Novel(1927),Abinger Harvest (1936),Two Cheers for Democ-racy(1951),The Hill of Devi (1953),and MarianneThornton,the biography of his great-aunt (1956).Twobooks have been published since his death in 1970:Maurice (1972)and The Life to Come and Other Stories(1973).  \nE.M.FORSTER  \n# Aspects of the Novel\n\nA HARVEST BOOK·HARCOURT,INC.SAN DIEGO NEW YORK LONDON  \nCopyright 1927 by Harcourt,Inc.Copyright renewed 1955 by E.M.Forster  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publicationmay be reproduced or transmitted in any form orby any means,electronic or mechanical,includingphotocopy,recording,or any information storageand retrieval system,without permission inwriing from the publisher.  \nRequests for permission to make copiesof any part of the work should be mailed tothe following address:Permissions Department,Harcourt,Inc.,6277 Sea Harbor Drive,Orlando,Florida 32887-6777.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication 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