![]() It was not until fourteen years later, in 1924, that Forster published another novel, one he’d worked on in fits and starts and revised again and again in the course of the difficult decade. He started but abandoned a novel, “Arctic Summer,” about a suitor who commits suicide over a scandalous love affair, and wrote another, “Maurice,” whose frank treatment of a homosexual relationship impelled him to withhold publication until after his death, in 1970. He had grown weary of “the only subject I both can and may treat-the love of men for women & vice versa,” and found that he couldn’t write his way out of his unease. Yet by the following year, when he was all of thirty-two years old, he confessed to his diary frustration with his work and a growing sense of impotence. He seemed completely in command of his milieu, middle- and upper-middle-class England at the beginning of the twentieth century, and he gently picked apart its sympathies with wit and penetrating insight. ![]() ![]() Forster’s? Between 19, the year that his masterful study of manners “Howards End” became a best-seller, Forster-who was known to friends as Morgan-produced four highly successful novels and was acclaimed as one of the brightest young literary lights in Britain. ![]() ![]() Has any major novelist had a career as lopsided as E. ![]()
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