The Longest Journey (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781974566754)

Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and congenitally lame young man, orphaned at the age of 15, escapes from the misery of suburban life and the bullying of public school to Cambridge, where, like Forster himself, he finds sympathetic friends, chief amongst them Ansell, a grocer's son. He has literary aspirations (his short stories, Arcadian pastoral fantasies, are remarkably like Forster's own), but is also attracted by Agnes Pembroke, the conventional but beautiful sister of a schoolmaster friend and protector, and by her handsome, athletic, ex-bully fiancé Gerald

Author: E. M. Forster
ISBN-10: 1974566757
ISBN-13: 9781974566754
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 08/17/2017
Pages: 274
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.58d