The Celestial Omnibus And Other Stories

The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories is the title of a collection of short stories by English writer E. M. Forster first published in 1911. A traveler steps off the road and finds himself in an alternate reality. A sullen boy accidentally summons a spirit. A man gets more than he bargained for when he buys his fiancée a plot of wooded land. These six stories deal with transformations the truth of the imagination and the effect of the unseen on ordinary lives. By juxtaposing the Edwardian English with pagan mythology E.M. Forster created in this collection a work of lasting strangeness and great beauty. The Omnibus Contains The Story Of A Panic The Other Side of The Hedge The Celestial Omnibus Other Kingdon The Curate's Friend and The Road From Colonus.