{"product_id":"2026200015176-secondhand-commonplace-book","title":"Commonplace Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew literary figures of the twentieth century possessed the breadth of mind and quiet moral authority of E. M. Forster, and his Commonplace Book offers an intimate window into the private intellectual world that shaped his celebrated fiction. Edited by Philip Gardner, this remarkable volume presents a curated selection of Forster's personal jottings, reflections, and quotations — the raw material of a great writer's inner life — spanning decades of voracious reading, cultural observation, and philosophical musing.\n\nA commonplace book, by tradition, is a writer's private repository of ideas, and Forster's is no exception: it chronicles his encounters with literature, music, politics, and human nature with the same understated wit and penetrating intelligence found in A Room with a View and Howards End. Gardner's meticulous editorial work illuminates the connections between Forster's private thought and his public art, revealing a mind of restless curiosity and deep humanist conviction. For scholars and devoted readers alike, this is an irreplaceable document — one that raises the tantalising question of just how much of Forster's genius was forged in the margins of his reading life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203187548379,"sku":"2026200015176-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/5d7d2083-6cb2-4fa7-9cc7-6cb77c6a9c3e.png?v=1788145263","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015176-secondhand-commonplace-book","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}