Aspects of the Novel, E. M. Forster
Aspects of the Novel, E. M. Forster
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Aspects of the Novel

Author: E. M. Forster

Narrator: Jason Tibor

Unabridged: 6 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/16/2025

Synopsis

First published in 1927, Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster remains one of the most influential works of literary criticism in the English language. Based on a series of lectures delivered at Cambridge University, Forster explores the essential elements that define the novel — story, people, plot, fantasy, prophecy, pattern, and rhythm.With wit, clarity, and intellectual warmth, Forster examines the craft of novelists from Jane Austen and Charles Dickens to Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, offering insights into what makes fiction come alive on the page. His timeless reflections challenge rigid forms of analysis, inviting readers and writers alike to approach the novel as both an art and an exploration of human experience.This classic guide to understanding fiction is as engaging today as when it was first delivered, a must-listen for students of literature, aspiring writers, and lovers of storytelling.

About E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster (1879–1970) was an English novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy and also attitudes toward gender and homosexuality in early-twentieth-century British society. Among his most notable novels are Howards End, A Room with a View, A Passage to India, The Longest Journey, and Where Angels Fear to Tread.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on September 22, 2012

They said to me "Do you do Twitter?" I said no, I have Goodreads. They said "What about Facebook?" I said no, I have Goodreads - this is funny, someone said it should be called Bookface. They didn't get that. They said "Do you have a blog?" I said well, no, I do Goodreads. They looked at each other, and th......more

Goodreads review by Riku on January 03, 2021

Towards a Poetics of The Novel Here is a nice pseudo-scholarly jaunt through what 'aspects' go towards the creation of the Novel-form. Forster isolates a few of these aspects and discusses them, but the the 'rhythm' of the lectures, to use his own terminology, is one of insufficiency. It is as if......more

Goodreads review by Carolyn Marie on May 23, 2020

"No English Novelist is as great as Tolstoy" ...as if I couldn't love E.M. Forster even more!!! That fact that one of my favorite authors (Forster) has also read and loved the same books as I have just makes my heart sing! Going into this book, I thought it was going to be a type of "guide to writing......more

Goodreads review by Georgia on December 07, 2024

My favorite take away from this is that people in books don't have to eat. They can exist, Forster says, without food. Following this logic, unlike actors on a film set, characters shouldn't need catering. So, when they sit down at a table, I take note. Something important is about to happen. Try to......more

Goodreads review by W.D. on February 26, 2023

Loved it to bits... Not necessarily for what he says or thinks or concludes (when he does so, which isn't often, since he's always undercutting and sabotaging any hint of a clear "theoretical" position, in favour of a certain not always certain eclecticism), but for how he thinks and especially how......more

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