"In Italy, Miss Lucy Honeychurch falls in love with the eccentric George Emerson, but later becomes engaged to the "sophisticated" Cecil Vyse. However, when George and his father rent a villa in England, Lucy is forced to choose between a life of convention and one of passion"--Back cover.
Die ausgewählten Texte aus den Bänden »Abinger Harvest« (1936) und »Two Cheers for Democracy« (1951) sind eindringliche Plädoyers für Demokratie und Menschlichkeit. Forster schreibt mit einer bewundernswerten Sanftheit und im felsenfesten Glauben an die Bedeutung persönlicher Beziehungen über das Ideal der Verbundenheit untereinander. In der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts prägen Antisemitismus und Rassismus gesellschaftliche Diskurse, nicht zuletzt gab es zwei Weltkriege. In Forsters Augen ist die Kunst das einzige menschliche Produkt mit einer immanenten inneren Ordnung, das Halt in den Wirren der Zivilisation bieten kann. Forster plädiert in seinen Texten für die Zuwendung zu den Künsten gerade in Zeiten von Kriegen und nationalistischen Tendenzen. Dank der literarischen Strahlkraft der Essays werden wir heute wieder daran erinnert.
Are we witnessing a psychotic break? Or, has someone with physical features strikingly similar to his own spotted an opportunity, and seized it?
Své stěžejní dílo, románovou antiutopii My, napsal Zamjatin v roce 1920. V letech 1924/25 se objevila v překladech do češtiny, angličtiny a francouzštiny. V Rusku byla vydána až v letech přestavby, v roce 1987. Jádrem díla je život v „Jednotném státu“ vzniklém někdy ve třetím tisíciletí po „dvousetleté válce“. Lidé v této době už netrpí bídou, ztratili však jména a stali se pouhými „čísly“, lidmi – šroubky. Ženy jsou pojmenovány samohláskami, např. I – 330, a muži souhláskami, např. hlavní hrdina je D – 503. Život těchto lidí je organizován a přísně střežen Úřadem Strážců. Všichni lidé žijí v prosklených domech, takže nemohou nic skrýt. Vstávají každý den všichni ve stejnou minutu, stejně odchází do práce a stejně jdou i na odpočinek. Na každé sousto při jídle mají předepsaných padesát skousnutí. Na dítě musí mít povolení, jinak jsou popraveni. Vůle kolektivu zde pod totalitním diktátem Dobroditele zcela vytlačuje svobodu lidského myšlení.
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In E. M. Forsters Dystopie leben die Menschen in einer unterirdischen, abgekapselten Welt mit allem Komfort: Das ganze Leben ist durch die Dienstleistungen der »Maschine« perfekt geregelt. Die Menschen haben kein Bedürfnis mehr nach persönlichen Begegnungen, man kommuniziert nur über die Maschine, die über allem wacht. Ihr Handbuch ist zu einer Art Bibel geworden, die Menschen sind gefangen in ihrer absoluten Abhängigkeit von der Technik, die sie nicht mehr kontrollieren können. Doch nach und nach geht das Wissen, das hinter der Maschine steckt, verloren und das System wird anfällig für Pannen ... E. M. Forsters visionäres Werk wirft Fragen auf, die von großer Aktualität sind: Wie kann der Mensch seine Selbstbestimmung wahren gegenüber Maschinen, die immer stärker unser Leben bestimmen?
In the autumn of 1915, in a slightly heroic mood, E.M. Forster arrived in Alexandria, full of lofty ideals as a volunteer for the Red Cross. Yet most of his time was spent exploring the magic, antiquity, and complexity of the place in order to cope with living in what he saw as a “funk-hole.” With a novelist’s pen, he brings to life the fabled, romantic city of Alexander the Great, capital of Graeco-Roman Egypt, beacon of light and culture symbolized by the Pharaohs, where the doomed love affair of Antony and Cleopatra was played out and the greatest library the world has ever known was built. Threading 3,000 years of history with vibrant strands of literature and punctuating the narrative with his own experiences, Forster immortalized Alexandria, painting an incomparable portrait of the great city and, inadvertently, himself.
Known for his ironic and beautifully crafted novels, Edward Morgan Forster explores themes of hypocrisy and discrimination prevalent in early 20th-century British society. His work features engaging plots that reveal the complexities of social interactions and moral dilemmas, offering a critical perspective on the era's cultural norms.
2017 Reprint of 1909 Edition. The story describes a world in which most of the human population has lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual now lives in isolation below ground in a standard room, with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Travel is permitted, but is unpopular and rarely necessary. Communication is made via a kind of instant messaging/video conferencing machine with which people conduct their only activity: the sharing of ideas and what passes for knowledge. It is intended as a chilling reminder of the possible consequences on over reliance on machines and the changes to human capacity and character that could result from this over dependence. Consider a classic of the science fiction genre and a prescient warning about our reliance on machine technology.
Non contare il tempo... Fai contare il tempo! Le persone più efficienti e di maggior successo al mondo godono esattamente del tuo stesso 24 ore al giorno! Ti ritrovi spesso in corsa contro il tempo? Ti sembra di non averne mai abbastanza? Troppe priorità ti spingono contemporaneamente in direzioni diverse generando ansia, confusione e senso di sopraffazione? Sei sempre preso e dietro agli impegni, senza fare mai progressi davvero significativi? DIT -Do It Tomorrow- il nuovo acronimo che sta cambiando le regole del time management facendo proseliti in tutto il mondo illustra le ragioni che stanno dietro l'insuccesso della maggioranza dei sistemi di gestione temporale rivelando i trucchi e le tattiche avanzate per gestire il tempo efficientemente generando la massima produttività... senza stress.
1923. English author and critic, member of Bloomsbury group and friend of Virginia Woolf who achieved fame through his novels, which include: Room with a View, Maurice, A Passage to India, and Howard's End. The Celestial Omnibus is a collection of short-stories Forster wrote during the prewar years, most of which were symbolic fantasies or fables. Contents: The Story of a Panic; The Other Side of the Hedge; The Celestial Omnibus; Other Kingdom; The Curate's Friend; and The Road from Colonus. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
1993
Most people think of life as either something that happens to them or as something which they have to bend to their will. Life in short is seen as a series of problems requiring solutions. As a result people spend much of their lives either in escape activities or driving themselves to achieve, often both at the same time. But life becomes qualitatively different when we see it as a theatre in which we decide what is going to happen and then let it happen in the way that an artist will allow his or her creation to appear. This book is an example of the message that it teaches. Forster records methodically how he himself stopped struggling to work against his own feelings and to let his life happen. Exciting and inspiring, his own story with accompanying exercises for the reader prove the life-changing fact - that when we give priority to the workings of our unconscious minds we can trust them not to let us down.
Time is what our lives are made of. Failure to use it properly is disastrous. Yet most books on time management don't work because they take little account of human psychology or the unexpected. This book, written for everyone who has to juggle different demands in a busy schedule, includes lots of help and advice in finding a system that works effectively and leads to more enjoyment of work and leisure. 'I left Mark Forster's time management workshop a changed woman. Yesterday I used his system for a whole day. It was stress-free and fun. I felt energised and satisfied at the end of it.' Sarah Litvinoff
178pages. 20x12x2cm. Broché.
De meest onwaarschijnlijke verhalen uit de Engelse literatuur van de afgelopen honderd jaar van Oscar Wilde, Ernest Dowson, Arthur Machen, Robert Ross, Arthur Conan Doyle, H.G. Wells, Max Beerbohm, H.M. Bateman, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, W. Somerset Maugham, Roald Dahl, Vyvyan Holland en Harold Acton
Verhalen uit de wereldliteratuur over levensbeschouwelijke thema's.
Howards End, A Room With a View, Where Angels Fear to Tread
Three complete novels from this British master whose books have had enormously successful second lives because of brilliant and popular feature films. Howards End, A Room With a View, and Where Angels Fear to Tread are included here in their entirety.
Tragikomische Stories des englischen Schriftstellers (1879-1970.) Grossdruck
Part of a series of literature guides designed for GCSE and A Level coursework requirements, this book contains - author details, background to the work, summaries of the text, critical commentaries, analysis of characterization and sample questions with guideline answers.
En la lujosa mansión de su abuela en Boston, Heaven Lee Castel sueña con una maravillosa nueva vida: nuevos amigos, las mejores escuelas, ropa elegante y, lo más importante, el amor. Pronto restauraría el nombre de los Castel, encontraría a sus hermanos y recuperaría a su familia. Sin embargo, incluso en el mundo de los ricos, había extrañas y feas presentimientos, así como secretos cerrados a cal y canto en el olvido. Y a medida que Heaven encontraba el amor, se iba atrapando poco a poco en una red sorprendentemente peligrosa de cruel engaño y pasión oculta.
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.
Selected short stories introduced by Christopher Isherwood
The letters of the last half of E. M. Forster's life are as engaging as those of his earlier years. Imbued with the same wit, warmth, and vitality, they reveal the breadth of his interests and the great range and enduring quality of his friendships. After a second trip to India in 1921, Forster finally finished the Indian novel he had begun years before. A Passage to India (1924) capped his career as a novelist; he then turned his energies to essays and other nonfictional prose. In the 1930s he emerged as an active journalist, writing and broadcasting on social and political issues. He fought for civil liberties and led a successful campaign against the BBC's political blacklisting of performers. His correspondents during these years included T. S. Eliot, Siegfried Sassoon, Lennard and Virginia Woolf, Christopher Isherwood, and Stephen Spender. At seventy Forster began along, happy, and productive new period in his life with his work on the libretto for Benjamin Britten's opera Billy Budd . In 1960 he was a leading defense witness in the Lady Chatterley trial. By then he was a revered figure among literati and enjoyed advising younger writers. In these last decades he divided his time between his rooms at King's College, Cambridge, and the home of his friends the Buckinghams in Coventry, where he died at age ninety-one.
Includes the classic anthologies originally published as The Celestial Omnibus and The Eternal Moment, as well as three important stories published after Forster's death: "Dr. Woolacott," "The Life to Come," and "The Other Boat."
Zana nie je práve nadšená, keď si jej nedávno ovdovený otec nájde novú ženu. A ešte k tomu do jej života vtrhne Brian, ktorý sa teraz nedobrovoľne stal jej nevlastným bratom! Brian si myslí, že Zanin otec sa oženil len kvôli peniazom, a chová sa neuveriteľne protivne... ale napriek tomu na Zanu zapôsobí svoju energetickú mužnosťou!
Zkoumání řemesla fikce, přednášky E. M. Forstera se zabývají základními prvky, jako jsou příběh, zápletka, postavy a rytmus, a nabízejí komplexní teorii o psaní románů. Na příkladech z klasické literatury Forster představuje poznatky, které si získaly uznání od významných současníků, jako jsou W. Somerset Maugham a Virginia Woolf. Toto dílo vyniká mezi průvodci psaním a poskytuje cenné pohledy od uznávaného románopisce, což z něj činí nezbytnou četbu pro aspirující autory, kteří se snaží porozumět složitostem vyprávění příběhů.
A Room With a View is widely considered to be one of Forster's most well-known and beloved tales; it is considered a classic by some and is worth taking the time to read.
Maurice je jedním z prvních otevřeně homosexuálních románů. V době, kdy byl napsán (1913–1914), bylo jeho uveřejnění z pochopitelných důvodů vyloučeno, a vyšel tak až po autorově smrti v roce 1971. Přestože jde o příběh odehrávající se před téměř sto lety, je dnes, v době jeho prvního českého vydání, Hallovo hledání vlastní identity, a potažmo i sexuality, aktuální jako málokdy předtím. Knihu podpořilo Ministerstvo kultury ČR. Na propagaci knihy spolupracuje Gay Iniciativa České Republiky.
Forster, E.M., Albergo Empedocle And Other Writings
A collection that explores the human spirit through a series of fantasy vignettes.
Essays that applaud democracy's toleration of individual freedom and self-criticism and deplore its encouragement of mediocrity: "We may still contrive to raise three cheers for democracy, although at present she only deserves two."
Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent, sets out from Cambridge full of hopes to become a writer. But when his stories are not successful, he decides instead to marry the beautiful but shallow Agnes, agreeing to abandon his writing and become a schoolmaster.
This is the Penguin English Library Edition of Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster. 'I had got an idea that everyone here spent their lives in making little sacrifices for objects they didn't care for, to please people they didn't love; that they never learned to be sincere - and, what's as bad, never learned how to enjoy themselves'. E. M. Forster's first novel is a witty comedy of manners that is tinged with tragedy. It tells the story of Lilia Herriton, who proves to be an embarrassment to her late husband's family as, in the small Tuscan town of Monteriano, she begins a relationship with a much younger Italian man - classless, uncouth and highly unsuitable. A subtle attack on decorous Edwardian values and a humanely sympathetic portrayal of the clash of two cultures, Where Angels Fear to Tread is also a profound exploration of character and virtue. The Penguin English Library contains 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
The disregard of a dying woman's bequest, a girl's attempt to help an impoverished clerk, and the marriage of an idealist and a materialist -- all intersect at an estate called Howards End. The fate of this country home symbolizes the future of England in an exploration of social, economic, and philosophical trends during the post-Victorian era.
Abridged and simplified but retaining as much as possible of the author's original style.
Název svého stěžejního díla, Cesty do Indie, převzal Forster od Walta Whitmana. Zatímco však americký básník tak koncem 60. let 19. století pojmenoval skladbu oslavující otevření Suezského průplavu a vyjadřující naději ve sbratření lidí všech ras, u britského romanopisce bere na sebe téma možného porozumění mezi obyvateli různých kontinentů podstatně trpčejší a ironičtější podobu. Tak jako na šachovnici postavil Forster proti sobě dva tábory: na jednu stranu povýšeneckou anglickou menšinu, na stranu druhou místní indickou elitu, reprezentovanou doktorem Azízem, muslimským chirurgem, který musí snášet ponižování ve vlastní zemi. Mezi nimi hraje svůj part liberální anglický učitel Fielding, jenž si za sympatie k domorodému obyvatelstvu vyslouží od svých krajanů podezřívavé opovržení. Přestože Forsterův román v prvé řadě odhaluje lidsky nedůstojné koloniální praktiky, jeho poselství je mnohem obecnější – dotýká se možností a překážek komunikace nejen mezi příslušníky rozdílných národů či kultur, ale i mezi lidmi vůbec. Proto také bývá považován za významný mezník v dějinách britské literatury 20. století.
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