The Life to Come: And Other Stories
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0393304426 / Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, August 1987
Stories written between the 1900's and 1950's reveal the English writer's creativity and preoccupations
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Only two were published in his lifetime. Most of the other stories remained unpublished because of their overtly homosexual themes; instead they were shown to an appreciative circle of friends and fellow writers, including Christopher Isherwood, Siegfried Sassoon, Lytton Strachey, and T. E. Lawrence.The stories differ widely in mood and setting. One is a cheerful political satire; another has, most unusually for Forster, a historical setting; others give serious and powerful expression to some of Forster's profoundest concerns.
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