First published in 1907, The Longest Journey is the most personal of E.M. Forster's novels, and the one he was most glad to have written. Rickie Elliot, sensitive, idealistic and gifted with a powerful imagination, misleads him-self through his conventional desire for marriage and fatherhood. Falling for the beautiful yet superficial Agnes Pembroke, he gives up his writing ambitions and becomes a schoolmaster at a minor public school in order to marry her. So begins his journey away from the philosophical ideals of his ...
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First published in 1907, The Longest Journey is the most personal of E.M. Forster's novels, and the one he was most glad to have written. Rickie Elliot, sensitive, idealistic and gifted with a powerful imagination, misleads him-self through his conventional desire for marriage and fatherhood. Falling for the beautiful yet superficial Agnes Pembroke, he gives up his writing ambitions and becomes a schoolmaster at a minor public school in order to marry her. So begins his journey away from the philosophical ideals of his Cambridge youth and his slow descent into a hollow world of rigid conformity and moral decay.
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Add this copy of The Longest Journey to cart. $5.50, fair condition, Sold by Bookmarc's rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from La Porte, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by Penguin Books.
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Fair. No Jacket as Issued. E4-Book has crease on the front, back and spine, chippings on the top and bottom edges and sides, wrinkling on some parts of the book, discoloration (browning, light stains) on parts of the book, and normal shelf wear otherwise fair. In writing about E. M. Forster, the American critic Lionel Trilling has described the Longest Journey as 'perhaps the mnost brilliant, the most dramatic, and the most passionate of his works'. It is the story....
Add this copy of The Longest Journey (Modern Classics) to cart. $13.40, good condition, Sold by Jenhams rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dundee, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1973 by Penguin Classics.
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Good condition, a little tanning to page margins. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (the pictures you see on Alibris are NOT our own).
Add this copy of The Longest Journey [Penguin Modern Classics] to cart. $16.09, very good condition, Sold by Arapiles Mountain Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Castlemaine, VIC, AUSTRALIA, published 1982 by Penguin Books.
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Add this copy of The Longest Journey (Modern Classics) to cart. $33.63, good condition, Sold by Kennys.ie rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Galway, IRELAND, published 1971 by Penguin Books Ltd.
