The Short Fiction of E. M. Forster
This collection gathers the short fiction of E. M. Forster, the novelist of Howards End and A Passage to India. Alongside gentle fantasies and stories touched by Greek myth and the Italian landscape stands his most famous tale, The Machine Stops, a startling piece of early science fiction in which humanity lives isolated underground, each person alone in a cell and served entirely by a vast Machine, until the Machine begins to fail. Written in 1909, it reads today as an uncanny prophecy of a world bound together and hollowed out by technology. The other tales show Forster’s lighter, more playful imagination. This free PDF and EPUB presents his collected short stories.
About the Author
Wrote five novels in a burst before 1924 and then, at forty-five, essentially stopped, living another forty-six years without publishing another. A Passage to India turns on something that may or may not have happened in the Marabar Caves, and refuses to settle it, using…
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The Short Fiction of E. M. Forster (1912) is a public domain work.
| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chapter 1: The Story of a Panic, Part 1 | 17:40 | |
| 2 | Chapter 1: The Story of a Panic, Part 2 | 23:57 | |
| 3 | Chapter 1: The Story of a Panic, Part 3 | 25:42 | |
| 4 | Chapter 2: The Other Side of the Hedge | 17:46 | |
| 5 | Chapter 3: The Celestial Omnibus, Part 1 | 25:55 | |
| 6 | Chapter 3: The Celestial Omnibus, Part 2 | 24:04 | |
| 7 | Chapter 4: Other Kingdom, Part 1 | 18:31 | |
| 8 | Chapter 4: Other Kingdom, Part 2 | 24:51 | |
| 9 | Chapter 4: Other Kingdom, Part 3 | 29:36 | |
| 10 | Chapter 5: The Curate's Friend | 24:09 | |
| 11 | Chapter 6: The Road from Colonus, Part 1 | 16:10 | |
| 12 | Chapter 6: The Road from Colonus, Part 2 | 19:35 |
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