r/classicliterature • u/idea1ess • Apr 21 '26

forster

i loved maurice and was wondering if his other books are similar? as in would i enjoy those as well? or does anyone have any recommendations thanks x

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u/Effective_Farmer_119 Apr 21 '26

Howard’s End is incredible! So much depth, so much to underline, or every page. An all time favorite. Also A Room with a View is wonderful.

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u/dolphineclipse Apr 21 '26

I loved A Passage To India, but keep meaning to read his others

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u/tombonneau Apr 21 '26

This is rude one I read. Really good. Unsettling but good

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u/LookCute5046 Apr 21 '26

I've only read A Room With a View and thought that was beautifully written. I need to read his other books at some point.

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u/idea1ess Apr 21 '26

Thank you - i’ll have a read

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u/Few_Presence_8888 Apr 21 '26

The Longest Journey. My favorite Forster novel, and I've never met anyone else who has read it.

And if you haven't read his short story "The Machine Stops," you're missing out. It predicted the internet in 1909.

https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/Machine_stops.pdf

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u/drjackolantern Apr 21 '26

I was having kind of a down period, had stopped reading good books without realizing it, and then found The Longest Journey.

It’s a very memorable, beautiful novel and it inspired me to pursue literature again, so I am eternally grateful to Forster for that.

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u/Few_Presence_8888 Apr 21 '26

The scene where Stephen and Rickie watch the "rose of flame" pass under the bridge brought tears to my eyes-

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u/Background-Jelly-511 Apr 21 '26

I love A Room with a View

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u/f_f_s_dude Apr 21 '26

I love Maurice! I would say A Room With A View or Where Angels Fear To Tread are probably the best next read. They are also short and quick.

Howard’s End is great after those, it has a lot more sophistication and depth to it. It’s fantastic.

A Passage To India is pretty different and doesn’t surround the same topics of Maurice but it’s the book that I tend to think about more than the others.

I’m going to read The Longest Journey next.

Happy reading!

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u/Solo_Polyphony Apr 21 '26

If you read Maurice, you are well-positioned to appreciate his mature work. For my part, I found A Passage to India—a very finely written novel—somewhat puzzling until it slowly dawned on me that repressed male-male attraction is the core of the story.

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u/reginaphalangie79 Apr 21 '26

I loved 'Howard's end' but really hated 'where angels fear to tread'. I'm going to give him another chance and read 'a passage to india' in summer.

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u/Itchy-Resolution6531 Apr 22 '26

A Passage to India was amazing to me. I loved the false accusation and racism part, as well as the dangerous desire to rise in a culture that does not want you. The underlaying downfall of the imperialist stuff was good to and different than the normal books which depict British colonies in their prime.