EM Forster Books in Order

Where Angels Fear to Tread begins with widowed Lilia Herriton falling for a young Italian in Tuscany, then follows the priggish English relatives who descend on the hill town of Monteriano to rescue her child, with tragic results that expose their snobbery and fear of passion.([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Angels_Fear_to_Tread?utm_source=openai))

The Longest Journey is a searching coming of age novel about sensitive, lame Cambridge student Rickie Elliot, whose marriage and schoolmaster job slowly suffocate his imagination until the reappearance of a rough half brother challenges his compromises about class, loyalty and integrity.([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Longest_Journey_%28novel%29?utm_source=openai))

A Room with a View follows young Lucy Honeychurch from a muddled holiday in Florence to her conventional life in Surrey, as a passionate kiss and the unconventional Emersons force her to choose between safe engagement and a more honest, risky happiness.([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Room_with_a_View?utm_source=openai))

Howards End centres on the idealistic Schlegel sisters, the wealthy Wilcox family and impoverished clerk Leonard Bast, using their tangled relationships and a much loved country house to explore class, inheritance and Forster's plea to "only connect" feeling with action.([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howards_End?utm_source=openai))

In this atmospheric short story set off the Sicilian coast, an English traveller hears a local fisherman's tale of a glimpse of a sea siren and the curse it brings, as myth and modern tourism uneasily share the same rocky shore.([gutenberg.org](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58581?utm_source=openai))

Pharos and Pharillon collects impressionistic sketches of Alexandria, pairing brisk retellings of ancient episodes with memories of Forster's own Red Cross years in the city, to create an idiosyncratic blend of history, travel writing and literary portrait.([cup.columbia.edu](https://cup.columbia.edu/book/pharos-and-pharillon/9781916809291/?utm_source=openai))

Set in the fictional city of Chandrapore under the British Raj, A Passage to India follows Dr Aziz, schoolteacher Adela Quested and her future mother in law Mrs Moore as an incident in the Marabar Caves ignites racial tension and tests the possibility of friendship across empire.([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Passage_to_India?utm_source=openai))

Based on his Clark Lectures at Cambridge, Aspects of the Novel is Forster's conversational guide to how fiction works, exploring story, character, plot, fantasy, pattern and rhythm through examples from classic novels rather than strict academic rules.([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspects_of_the_Novel?utm_source=openai))

This short volume gathers Forster's central humanist essays, including 'What I Believe', 'An Alternative in Humanism' and 'How I Lost My Faith', where he sets out a quietly radical creed based on tolerance, personal loyalty and scepticism toward dogma.([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_I_Believe_%28E._M._Forster_essay%29?utm_source=openai))

Nordic Twilight is a brief Macmillan war pamphlet in which Forster warns that a Nazi victory would destroy European civilisation, arguing in plain, urgent prose for the values Britain is fighting to defend at the start of the Second World War.([abebooks.com](https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/macmillan-war-pamphlets/?utm_source=openai))

This essay collection brings together Forster's political and cultural writings from the 1930s and 1940s, including his famous defence of liberal humanism in 'What I Believe' and frank reflections on fascism, war, art and individual conscience.([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Cheers_for_Democracy?utm_source=openai))

The Hill of Devi is Forster's memoir of serving as private secretary to the Maharaja of Dewas, told through letters and commentary that capture the odd mixture of ceremony, humour and melancholy in a small princely state and foreshadow his novel A Passage to India.([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hill_of_Devi?utm_source=openai))

Battersea Rise prints the opening chapter of Forster's biography of Marianne Thornton as a standalone keepsake, sketching the Thornton family home on Clapham Common and the tight knit evangelical world that shaped both Marianne's activism and Forster's family story.([rookebooks.com](https://www.rookebooks.com/1955-battersea-rise?utm_source=openai))

Drawing on family letters and diaries, this domestic biography recreates the life of Forster's great aunt Marianne Thornton, an evangelical reformer in the Clapham Sect, and uses her household to illuminate Victorian campaigns against slavery, changing class attitudes and the roots of his own inheritance.([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Thornton?utm_source=openai))

Forster's biography of his friend Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson traces the life of the Cambridge historian and political thinker who helped imagine the League of Nations, combining personal recollection with a clear account of Dickinson's pacifism, scholarship and quietly radical politics.([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldsworthy_Lowes_Dickinson))

Written in 1913-1914 but published after Forster's death, Maurice follows a young middle class Englishman from public school to Cambridge as he discovers his homosexuality and falls in love, ending with a defiantly hopeful vision of lasting same sex partnership.([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._M._Forster?utm_source=openai))

Alexandria is Forster's history and guide to the Egyptian port city, braiding three thousand years of politics, religion and legend with his own wartime walks through its streets to create a rich portrait of place for curious readers and travellers.([barnesandnoble.com](https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/alexandria-e-m-forster/1117011720?utm_source=openai))

Arctic Summer is Forster's unfinished novel, following the uneasy friendship between cautious civil servant Martin Whitby and idealistic Clesant March on a journey south, where clashes over class, loyalty and desire expose the fault lines of Edwardian English life.([theguardian.com](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/oct/11/classics.emforster?utm_source=openai))

Covering 1879 to 1920, this first volume of letters follows Forster from childhood and Cambridge into his early travels, the writing of his first novels and his time in Egypt and India, offering a lively day to day portrait behind the published work.([abebooks.de](https://www.abebooks.de/9780002167185/1879-1920-v-1-Selected-Letters-0002167182/plp?utm_source=openai))

This second volume gathers Forster's correspondence from 1921 to 1970, tracing his life after 'A Passage to India' through wartime broadcasting, humanist campaigning and late friendships, and revealing his wit, doubts and private reflections in his own words.([abebooks.com](https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/selected-letters-e-m-forster/?utm_source=openai))