num_pages: 310
description: In this searching tragicomedy of manners, personalities, and world views, E. M. Forster explores the "idea of England" he would later develop in Howard's End . Bookish, sensitive, and given to wild enthusiasms, Rickie Elliot is virtually made for a life at Cambridge, where he can subsist on a regimen of biscuits and philosophical debate. But the love-smitten Rickie leaves his natural habitat to marry the devastatingly practical Agnes Pembroke, who brings with her — as a sort of dowry — a teaching position at the abominable Sawston School.
language: English
title: The Longest Journey
titlecomplete: The Longest Journey
characters: Rickie Elliot, Gerald Dawes, Stewart Ansell, Stephen Wonham, Agnes Pembroke, Emily Failing, Herbert Pembroke
genres: Fiction, English Literature, British Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 2483
publisher: Vintage