Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: " Only connect.

The novel was controversial, given that Forster's homosexuality had not been previously known or widely acknowledged.

Forster's explicitly homosexual writings, the novel Maurice and the short story collection The Life to Come, were published shortly after his death.

The novel is based on Forster's experiences in India.

It is Forster's afterthought of the novel, and he quite clearly states that " I cannot think where George and Lucy live.

Finally, in Forster's novel, Philip realizes that he is in love with Caroline Abbott but that he can never have her, because she admits, dramatically, to being in love with Gino.

In 1991, West played the lower-middle-class clerk Leonard Bast in the Merchant Ivory film adaptation of E. M. Forster's novel Howards End ( released 1992 ) opposite Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter and Anthony Hopkins.

In 1984, she was cast as Adela Quested in David Lean's final film A Passage to India, an adaptation of E. M. Forster's novel, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

A fictionalised version of San Gimignano is featured in E. M. Forster's 1905 novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread as Monteriano.

An early advocate of sexual freedoms, he had a profound influence on both D. H. Lawrence and Aurobindo, and inspired E. M. Forster's novel Maurice.

The relationship between Carpenter and Merrill was the template for the relationship between Maurice Hall and Alec Scudder, the gamekeeper in Forster's novel.

She also featured in E. M. Forster's first novel ' Where Angels Fear to Tread ' as a perspiring Italian lady who insists on keeping the windows open in a train, causing one of the characters to get a smut in her eye.

There is some reason to believe that Searight was the model for the hero of Forster's novel Maurice.

In the sixteenth chapter of E. M. Forster's novel Maurice, Clive mentions that he finds himself unable to approach Greuze's " subject matter " from anything more than purely aesthetic perspective, contrasting Greuze's work with that of the Greek sculptors in the process.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel ( 2005 ), is a non-fiction meditation on the history and the nature of the novel, somewhat in the tradition of E. M. Forster's seminal Aspects of the Novel, that roams from eleventh century Japan's Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji to 21st-century American women's literature.

Allott is the author of a biography of Jules Verne and two collections of poems ( see works below ), a critical edition of William Habbington's poems, and a play adapted from EM Forster's novel A Room with A View.

In 1985 A Room with a View, based on the E. M. Forster novel, was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won three, for Jhabvala's adaptation of Forster's novel as well as for Best Costume and Best Production Design.

Examples include E. M. Forster's 1909 short story " The Machine Stops ", Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano, Frank Herbert's Dune, and Arthur C. Clarke's 1956 novel The City and the Stars.

It was the original title and is the principal locale of E. M. Forster's 1905 novel Where Angels Fear to Tread.

Some writers have also parodied the idea: E. M. Forster's The Machine Stops ( 1909 ) and Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World.

Where Angels Fear to Tread and A Room with a View can be seen collectively as Forster's Italian novels.

A Room with a View is Forster's most romantic and optimistic book.

E. M. Forster's A Passage to India ( 1924 ), reflected challenges to imperialism, while his earlier works such as A Room with a View ( 1908 ) and Howards End ( 1910 ), examined the restrictions and hypocrisy of Edwardian society in England.

* A Shropshire Lad is mentioned in E. M. Forster's A Room with a View.

Helena Bonham Carter plays excerpts from the 2nd and 3rd movements of this piece in James Ivory's film adaptation of E. M. Forster's A Room with a View.

E. M. Forster's ' Room with a View ' opens with the main protagonist Lucy Honeychurch and her spinster counsin and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett complaining about the Pensione Bertolini, where they are staying in Florence, Italy.

His reports on the people of Polynesia are well regarded even to today, as they show Forster's description of the inhabitants of the southern islands with empathy, sympathy and largely without Western or Christian prejudices.

Lord Sandwich, although willing to pay the promised money, was irritated with Johann Reinhold Forster's opening chapter and tried to have him edited.

Forster's closest friend, Samuel Thomas von Sömmering, arrived in Kassel shortly after Forster, and both were soon involved with the Rosicrucians in Kassel.

Forster's attitude brought him into conflict with people of different nations he encountered and made him welcome nowhere, as he was too revolutionary and antinational for Germans, proud and opposing in his dealings with Englishmen, too unconcerned about Polish science for Poles, and too insignificant politically and ignored while in France.

Forster's 1870 Act, bodies that were popular with Nonconformists and Radicals, replacing them with Local Education Authorities that would administer a state centred system of primary, secondary and technical schools.

The Dissenters were by no means satisfied with Forster's " conscience clause " as contained in the bill, and they regarded him, the ex-Quaker, as a deserter from their own side.

The narrator describes Septimus and Evans behaving together like " two dogs playing on a hearth-rug " who, inseparable, " had to be together, share with each other, fight with each other, quarrel with each other ..." Jean E. Kennard notes that the word " share " could easily be read in a Forsteran manner, perhaps as in Forster's Maurice which shows the word's use in this period to describe homosexual relations.

For Eijkman this was to prove a lucky event, as it enabled him to work in E. Forster's laboratory in Amsterdam, and also in Robert Koch's bacteriological laboratory in Berlin ; here he came into contact with C. A.

This bird could be confused with the Royal Tern or Forster's Tern, but the elegans is larger and thicker-billed and shows more white on the forehead in winter.

Forster's family originated in the Lords Forrester in Scotland from where his great-grandfather had emigrated after losing most of his property during the rule of Oliver Cromwell along with many other Scots.

Encounters with Searight also influenced English author E. M. Forster's world-view, particularly with regard to soldiers.

Both Arnold and Forster had postured during the battle, each threatening the other with the prospect of atrocities: the killing of prisoners by Forster's Indian allies and the destruction of Indian villages by Arnold's men.

When Forster ’ s cousin, Philip Whichelo, donated a portrait of Forster to the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association ( GLHA ), Jim Herrick, the founder, quoted Forster's words: " The humanist has four leading characteristics-curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

* Singh, K. Natwar, Editor, E. M. Forster: A Tribute, With Selections from his Writings on India, Contributors: Ahmed Ali, Mulk Raj Anand, Narayana Menon, Raja Rao & Santha Rama Rau, ( On Forster's Eighty Fifth Birthday ), Harcourt, Brace & World Inc., New York, 1 January 1964.

After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review ( November 1909 ), the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928.

* Seegert, Alf ( 2010 ), " Technology and the Fleshly Interface in E. M. Forster's ' The Machine Stops '", Journal of Ecocriticism 2: 1.

# E. M. Forster: A Tribute ,( On Forster's Eighty Fifth Birthday ), editor, with Contributions by Ahmed Ali, Narayana Menon, Raja Rao & Santha Rama Rau, New York, 1964

The Jewel in the Crown engages with and rewrites E. M. Forster's A Passage to India ( 1924 ), and so is necessarily set in a small, Hindu-majority rural town with an army garrison, but the wider province is implicit, and the later novels spread out to the cold-weather capital on the plains, the hot-weather capital in the hills, a neighbouring Muslim-ruled princely state, and the railway lines that bind them together – as well as Calcutta, Bombay, and the Burmese theatre of war.

Forster's first feature-length motion picture was the psychological drama Everything Put Together ( 2000 ), which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

At Forster's disposal in early Nazi occupation of Polish territories were 17. 667 members of the paramilitary Selbstschutz, Danzig police units ( including Einsatzkommando 16 ), and a special SD unit Forster announced that West Prussia would become a " blossoming, pure German " province and all Poles will be driven off.

He has introduced new editions of Rudyard Kipling's Kim ( Modern Library ), E. M. Forster's A Passage to India ( Penguin Classics ), and J. G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur ( NYRB Classics ).

Adeytown ( formerly called Lee Bight ), like Deep Bight, Piston Mere, Maggoty Cove and Forster's, was founded in the 1850s and 1860s as a small logging operation and, with the building of the Newfoundland Railway, it grew as the demand for lumber was at a peak.