The Longest Journey

Name: The Longest Journey
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: E. M. Forster
ISBN: 9781455102235

Author: E. M. Forster

Narrator: Nadia May

Unabridged: 9 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

Bookish, sensitive, and given to wild enthusiasms, Rickie Elliot is virtually made for a life at Cambridge, where he can subsist on a regimen of biscuits and philosophical debate. But the lovesmitten Rickie leaves his natural habitat to marry the devastatingly practical Agnes Pembroke. Out of this misalliance comes a tragicomedy of manners, personalities, and world views.

About E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster (1879–1970) was an English novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy and also attitudes toward gender and homosexuality in early-twentieth-century British society. Among his most notable novels are Howards End, A Room with a View, A Passage to India, The Longest Journey, and Where Angels Fear to Tread.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Katie

Maybe 3.5. I enjoyed this, and Forster's writing was wonderful as always, but I didn't love it as much as the other Forster books I've read. It has some fascinating sections and some very interesting characters, but the plot didn't hang together as much for me as Forster's other books.......more

Goodreads review by Sketchbook

A neglected Forster, very effective, but also disconcerting. Forster (1879-1970), a teen during the Oscar Wilde scandal, is one of thousands of Brit males who never recovered from obscene UK laws, in "civilized Brit," that went on for 60+ years.... In this ambitious and, for EM, "personal" novel, th......more