title: Selected Letters of E. M. Forster, Volume Two 1921-1970 (Volume II)
author: E. M. Forster
description: Forster delighted in letter writing, had a passionate belief in friendship (and a rare gift for it) and generally aimed at amusing his correspondents, facts that go far to explain the vitality, charm and variety of these lettersThere are gossipy, richly descriptive letters to his mother and aunts; letters to literary friends the likes of G. L. Dickinson, Cavafy and the Woolfs that grapple with ethical or literary questions and are variously serious, witty and prankish; and letters to a few special friends that touch on the homosexual themes of his 'unpublishable' novel <i>Maurice</i>. Through most of the correspondence shine Forster's antipathy to respectability and his talent for the unexpected. (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>)<br /><br />These letters confirm and broaden Mr. Furbank's portrait of a witty and complex man, passionate in his attachments, reflective and intelligent in his attitudes and beliefs, insecure in his periods of introspection and self-doubt. (<i>The Economist</i>)<br /><br />Forster was in fact a born letter-writerCertain qualities in the letters are fairly constant. They are amusing, but their wit rests on a foundation of seriousness; fastidious, but their good manners are tempered by a light irreverence and a raciness which stops just short of slang. (<i>The Observer</i>)
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  Newton Forster
  
  
  Volume the First
  
  
    
    
  Chapter I.  
    
  Chapter II.  
    
  Chapter III.  
    
  Chapter IV.  
    
  Chapter V.  
    
  Chapter VI.  
    
  Chapter VII.  
    
  Chapter VIII.  
    
  Chapter IX.  
    
  Chapter X.  
    
  [Chapter XI.](Newton%20Forster_split_001.html#filepos170665)  
    
  [Chapter XII.](Newton%20Forster_split_001.html#filepos193800)  
    
  [Chapter XIII.](Newton%20Forster_split_001.html#filepos212257)  
    
  [Chapter XIV.](Newton%20Forster_split_001.html#filepos237593)  
    
  [Chapter XV.](Newton%20Forster_split_001.html#filepos264739)  
    
  [Chapter XVI.](Newton%20Forster_split_001.html#filepos284394)  
    
  [Chapter XVII.](Newton%20Forster_split_001.html#filepos296965)  
    
  [Chapter XVIII.](Newton%20Forster_split_001.html#filepos310723)
  
  
  [Volume the Second](Newton%20Forster_split_001.html#filepos323245)
  
  
    
    
  [Chapter I.](Newton%20Forster_split_001.html#filepos323310)  
    
  [Chapter II.](Newton%20Forster_split_001.html#fil