Abinger Harvest
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A mind as penetrating and graceful as E.M. Forster's was never content to be confined to the novel alone — Abinger Harvest is the glittering proof. First published in 1936, this celebrated collection gathers over sixty pieces written across three decades, ranging from literary criticism and political commentary to travel sketches and personal reminiscences, all united by Forster's singular intelligence and his deep, abiding concern for the life of the mind. Organised into four broad sections — The Present, Books, The Past, and The East — the collection takes its title from the Surrey village of Abinger Hammer, a place that anchored Forster's imagination and whose clock tower adorns this very edition. What makes Abinger Harvest enduringly significant is not merely the breadth of its subject matter, but the quality of attention Forster brings to each piece — the same humane irony, the same distrust of dogma, and the same quietly radical liberalism that animate A Passage to India and Howards End. He argues persuasively for tolerance and individual conscience at a moment when European civilisation was sliding toward catastrophe, and his prose — lucid, witty, and deceptively light — carries moral weight without ever becoming didactic. For readers who know Forster only through his fiction, this collection uncovers an equally formidable essayist; for those already devoted to his work, it presents an indispensable companion to everything else he wrote.
Author: E.M. Forster
Format: Paperback
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A mind as penetrating and graceful as E.M. Forster's was never content to be confined to the novel alone — Abinger Harvest is the glittering proof. First published in 1936, this celebrated collection gathers over sixty pieces written across three decades, ranging from literary criticism and political commentary to travel sketches and personal reminiscences, all united by Forster's singular intelligence and his deep, abiding concern for the life of the mind. Organised into four broad sections — The Present, Books, The Past, and The East — the collection takes its title from the Surrey village of Abinger Hammer, a place that anchored Forster's imagination and whose clock tower adorns this very edition. What makes Abinger Harvest enduringly significant is not merely the breadth of its subject matter, but the quality of attention Forster brings to each piece — the same humane irony, the same distrust of dogma, and the same quietly radical liberalism that animate A Passage to India and Howards End. He argues persuasively for tolerance and individual conscience at a moment when European civilisation was sliding toward catastrophe, and his prose — lucid, witty, and deceptively light — carries moral weight without ever becoming didactic. For readers who know Forster only through his fiction, this collection uncovers an equally formidable essayist; for those already devoted to his work, it presents an indispensable companion to everything else he wrote.