{"product_id":"2026200016612-secondhand-collected-short-stories","title":"Collected Short Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the mind of one of English literature's most celebrated voices comes a treasury of imagination and wit — E. M. Forster's Collected Short Stories gathers together the complete short fiction of a writer whose keen eye for human folly and transcendence shaped the course of the modern novel. Set across drawing rooms, Italian piazzas, and mythological landscapes, the stories chronicle a vivid cast of Edwardian characters confronted by the uncanny, the romantic, and the absurd, spanning genres from pastoral fantasy to sharp social comedy. Each tale presents Forster's signature tension between the repressed conventions of English middle-class life and the liberating, often disruptive forces of passion, art, and the natural world.\n\nForster's prose style is precise yet lyrical, underpinned by a humanist philosophy that argues for personal connection over institutional conformity — a credo best remembered in his maxim only connect. This collection, published under the Penguin Modern Classics imprint, stands as an essential companion to his celebrated novels, illustrating the full range of his thematic preoccupations: sexuality, class, spirituality, and the transformative power of beauty. Whether conjuring Pan in the English countryside or dissecting the emotional paralysis of a repressed clerk, Forster leaves the reader with the unsettling suspicion that the world they inhabit is far stranger — and far richer — than they have dared to believe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49309683515611,"sku":"2026200016612-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/23255634-abfa-4744-a5fa-a6385ffc6654.png?v=1789455372","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016612-secondhand-collected-short-stories","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}