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Connecting with E.M. Forster: A Memoir
Author(s): Tim Leggatt (Author)
- Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 28 Sept. 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 120 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781843913757
- ISBN-13: 1843913755
Book Description
Tim Leggatt knew E.M. Forster for the last half of his life, decades after the last of his acclaimed novels was published, and in this memoir he draws on the unpublished correspondence he held with Forster over this period, as well as journals of their travels together, Forster’s own confidential diary and his Commonplace Book. ‘In Forster’s declining years,’ Leggatt writes, ‘his thoughts often concerned sex and his health, his increasing blindness and deafness, his hospital visits, all of which led him to think about death and how he would meet it and how others did. But this was not as gloomy as it may well sound. ‘He was much concerned about the world’s growing population and in this country about the disappearance of the countryside. I have also included many of his sharp and attractive descriptions of people and scenes, those of a very perceptive and thoughtful writer.’
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About the Author
Tim Leggatt has been an academic, an actor and a media consultant. E. M. Forster (1879 – 1970) wrote Where Angels Fear To Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room With a View, Howards End, A Passage to India and Maurice. His books Arctic Summer and The Obelisk are published by Hesperus Press.
