num_pages: 304
description: Bookish, sensitive Rickie Elliot is quite at home amid the placid and scholarly environs of Cambridge. That is, until he falls for the shallow young Agnes Pembroke. Forster skewers undergraduate philosophical debate, the opening day of a public school, and tea with a frightful dowager, as the dire consequences of mistaken love later developed in Howard's End take their toll. Together, these elements combine to form a deft blend of tragedy and social satire that readers will savor.
language: English
title: The Longest Journey
titlecomplete: The Longest Journey (Bantam Classic)
characters: Agnes Pembroke, Herbert Pembroke, Emily Failing, Rickie Elliot, Stewart Ansell, Stephen Wonham, Gerald Dawes
genres: Audiobook, 20th Century, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, English Literature, Classics, British Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 2482
publisher: Bantam Classics