Aspects of the Novel

<strong> E. M. Forster's guide sparkles with wit and insight for contemporary writers and readers. </strong>With lively language and excerpts from well-known classics Forster (author of A Passage to India Howards End and A Room With a View) takes on the seven elements vital to a novel: story people plot fantasy prophecy pattern and rhythm. He not only defines and explains such terms as round versus flat characters (and why both are needed for an effective novel) but also provides examples of writing from such literary greats as Dickens and Austen. Forster's original commentary illuminates and entertains without lapsing into complicated scholarly rhetoric coming together in a key volume on writing.Forster's casual and wittily acute guidance...transmutes the dull stuff of He-Said and She-Said into characters stories and intimations of truth.--Harper's