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Aspects of the Novel

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First published: 1927
Pages: 115

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I Introductory
39:21
II The Story
32:52
III People
38:44
IV People (continued)
32:41
V. The Plot
37:09
VI. Fantasy
34:34
VII. Prophecy
42:23
VIII. Pattern and Rhythm
39:01
IX. Conclusion
5:48

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Aspects of the Novel is E. M. Forster's classic study of the art of fiction, based on a series of lectures he gave at Cambridge and published in 1927. Rather than march through literary history, Forster talks as one novelist to his readers about the elements that make a novel work, among them story, people, plot, and rhythm, and it is here that he draws his famous distinction between flat characters, who never change, and round ones, who can surprise us convincingly. Witty, personal, and full of shrewd judgements on the great novelists, the book remains one of the most readable and quoted works of criticism in English.

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E. M. Forster

Edward Morgan Forster was an English author. He is best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). He also wrote numerous short stories, essays, speeches and broadcasts, as well as biographies and pageant plays.