num_pages: 416
description: Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent, sets out from Cambridge full of hopes to become a writer. But when his stories are not successful he decides instead to marry the beautiful but shallow Agnes, agreeing to abandon his writing and become a schoolmaster at a second-rate public school. Giving up his hopes and values for those of the conventional world, he sinks into a world of petty conformity and bitter disappointments.Blending harsh realism with mystical images of nature, The Longest Journey was Forster’s favourite of his novels and also his most autobiographical, expressing his love for the vanishing English landscape. He described it as the novel ’I am most glad to have written’.’Perhaps the most brilliant, the most dramatic, and the most passionate of his works’ Lionel Trilling
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 Books