num_pages: 396
description: E. M. Forster once described The Longest Journey as the book "I am most glad to have written." An introspective novel of manners at once comic and tragic, it tells of a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent. He sets out full of hope to become a writer, but gives up his aspirations for those of the conventional world, gradually sinking into a life of petty conformity and bitter disappointments.
language: English
title: The Longest Journey
titlecomplete: The Longest Journey
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: Penguin Classics