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1.The Remains of the Day by: Kazuo Ishiguro March 03, 2005
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I read this book on a long plane journey back from Hong Kong when I was 18. Though I had been in Asia for 9 months, I was immediately thrust back into the pre-world war II of gentrified England; stultified, polite and controlled. It astounds me how Japanese-born Ishiguro creates so well the character of Stevens, the middle-aged painfully correct and repressed butler. You bleed for him as his own inhibitions hold him back from criticising his master and accepting he is in love. One of the final scenes in Weymouth makes me cry everytime. It is Stevens realisation of all he has loved and lost and nothing I have read since has ever been able to compare to that bitter-sweet tang of understanding that it is too late to try again. ... Read More:

2.Where Angels Fear to Tread (Penguin Classics) by: E.M. Forster May 31, 2007
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I first read this as a 6th form text in New Zealand in 1963 when texts were not prescribed. It was the choice of an inspired teacher who introduced us also to Janet Frame & Sylvia Ashton Warner. She ( & the novel) have remained with me for ever - we were allowed no references, had to respond only to what we read. Since then I have discovered much, including Italy, met the middle class values, etc. To revisit the novel is wonderful.

3.Howards End (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by: E.M. Forster, David Lodge April 27, 2006
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This was perhaps my first real introduction to literature, apart from "1984", the inevitable smart-schoolboy read, and "Sons And Lovers". As such it was a revelation - Forster's empathy, subtlety, lyricism and chracterisation are magnificent, while being oddly inobtrusive. There are no verbal pyrotechnics as you might find in DH Lawrence or Virginia Woolf, but a deeper vision of life that was wonderful to encounter at 15. Forster's writing trajectory had led him to be able to write a "condition of England" novel - while his previous novels had perhaps erred on the side of social satire and comedy ("A Room With A View" and "Where Angels Fear To Tread"), or been a personal projection ("The Longest Journey"), "Howards End" is more the work of a professional ... Read More:

4.A Room With A View (Special Edition) [1985] starring: Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Rupert Graves, Daniel Day Lewis, Judi Dench directed by: James Ivory October 29, 2007
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This film is so romantic and well acted. If you have not seen it is a must have if you like period drama's, I have watched it time and again and never bored.

5.Duchess of Malfi (New Mermaids) by: John Webster August 29, 2003
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Webster is scarcely known outside university departments and some enlightened secondary schools who have used him on A-level syllabuses. This is a pity...and a scandal. It means that he is vastly undervalued, if rated at all. His two main plays are great works of art and he is one of the very finest playwrights in existence. Read, and re-read.

6.A Passage to India by: E.M. Forster July 28, 2005
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Almost a century after the book's publication the most crucial problems it discussed are as current as they were during Forster's life. The impossibility of communicating across the divide of culture, religion, and race, seems to be even more alive then when he saw it. The value of the novel lies not so much in representing it but in the fact that Forster offers a way out - personal contact. There is little chance people will suddenly like Muslims, Pakistanis, gays, lesbians, Moroccans, Turkish, Kurds etc etc - there is a chance (a very slim chance, Forster would be quick to add) that an American and a Muslim, a Turk and a Kurd, an Israeli and a Palestinian can be friends. The world may not want it, the people that surround them may not want it but the results depend on us alone. ... Read More:

7.To the Lighthouse (Wordsworth Classics) by: Virginia Woolf February 07, 1994
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'One sees a fin passing far out. What image can I reach to convey what I mean? Really there is none, I think.' Woolf writing in her diary of 1925 reveals her life long concern with the problematic representation of experience. Her sense of reality's ineffability haunted all her major novels and in To the Lighthouse perhaps her art found its greatest expression. The novel begins with a promise, a promise made by a mother to her small child that he can go and visit the lighthouse near where the large family holiday each year. It ends with the Lighthouse being reached finally years later after the mother's death. The process that takes us from a casual promise to its manifestation is for me one of the most magical journeys in literature. I'll be braver- one of the ... Read More:

8.A Passage to India by: E.M. Forster September 03, 1998
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While the themes of this novel (largely racism and prejudice) are, sadly, apparently timeless, I didn't feel this novel had aged particularly well. The narrative style is definitely `of its age' which, for a modern reader, might be too slow and objective - too divorced from its content, making what should be a heart-rending, heart-stopping story just a bit of a drag. I don't feel this is an inevitable result of the age of the novel. Other classics - many much older, such as Dickens or Austen - retain an immediacy and a humanity across the decades, even centuries. But A Passage to India is - in style - much as it is in content: a study of a stuffier time.

9.A Room With A View [2007] starring: Laurence Fox, Timothy Spall, Rafe Spall, Elaine Cassidy November 05, 2007
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I really liked the idea of this, to do something non-Merchant Ivory with a Forster novel adaptation. It's not that I don't like the MI version, I love it, but I could have put it to one side had this been a great adapataion. Unfortunately it was thoroughly disappointing, especially adding an ending which, if my copy of the book is to be believed, Forster would not have approved of. The acting is OK on the whole, but it's hard going for the most part because it appears to be trying so hard not to be Merchant Ivory. Timothy Spall and Sophie Thompson are both good, but the leads are too insipid. On the ending: Forster (in some editions) adds a postscript to the story. In this he quite clearly states that George Emerson refused to go to war in WW1, so that whole section is just an ... Read More:

10.The Longest Journey (Penguin Classics) by: E.M. Forster July 27, 2006
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I really liked the idea of this, to do something non-Merchant Ivory with a Forster novel adaptation. It's not that I don't like the MI version, I love it, but I could have put it to one side had this been a great adapataion. Unfortunately it was thoroughly disappointing, especially adding an ending which, if my copy of the book is to be believed, Forster would not have approved of. The acting is OK on the whole, but it's hard going for the most part because it appears to be trying so hard not to be Merchant Ivory. Timothy Spall and Sophie Thompson are both good, but the leads are too insipid. On the ending: Forster (in some editions) adds a postscript to the story. In this he quite clearly states that George Emerson refused to go to war in WW1, so that whole section is just an ... Read More:

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