The Machine Stops

Informationen zum Autor E M Forster Klappentext Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970) was educated at King's College, Cambridge, with whom he had a lifelong connection. He was elected to an Honorary Fellowship in 1946. He wrote six novels - Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), The Longest Journey (1907), A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910), A Passage to India (1924), which won both the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Maurice , written in 1914, was published posthumously in 1971. He also published two volumes of short stories; two collections of essays; a critical work (Aspects of the Novel); The Hill of Devi; two biographies; two books about Alexandria; and the libretto for Britten's opera Billy Budd. He died in 1970. In his obituary The Times called him 'one of the most esteemed English novelists of his time'. Zusammenfassung Features two affecting short stories that combine the fantastical with the allegorical. This book includes "The Machine Stops" and "A Celestial Omnibus".

Product details

• Authors: E M Forster, E. M. Forster, E.M. Forster, Edward M. Forster, Edward Morgan Forster
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2011
• EAN: 9780141195988
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119598-8
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 161 mm x 7 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Fiction; Penguin Mini Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics; Penguin Fiction; Penguin Mini Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short Stories, FICTION / Dystopian, Classic fiction, Dystopian and utopian fiction