The Longest Journey

The Longest Journey is a bildungsroman by E. M. Forster first published in 1907. It is the second of Forsters six published novels following Where Angels Fear to Tread and preceding A Room with a View and Howards End. It was Forsters favourite among his own novels.E. M. Forster once described The Longest Journey as the book I am most glad to have written. An introspective novel of manners at once comic and tragic it tells of a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent. He sets out full of hope to become a writer but gives up his aspirations for those of the conventional world gradually sinking into a life of petty conformity and bitter disappointments.