The Life to Come and Other Stories

From the literary icon, author of Howard’s End and A Passage to India, comes a posthumous collection of short works, many never before published. Featuring fourteen short stories, The Life to Come spans six decades of E. M. Forster’s literary career, tracking every phase of his development. Never having sought publication for most of the stories–only two were published in his lifetime–Forster worried his career would suffer because of their overtly homosexual themes. Instead they were shown to an appreciative circle of friends and fellow writers, including Christopher Isherwood, Siegfried Sassoon, Lytton Strachey, and T. E. Lawrence. With stories that are lively and amusing (“What Does It Matter?”; “The Obelisk”), and others that are more somber and thought-provoking (“Dr Woolacott”; “Arthur Snatchfold”), The Life to Come sheds a light on Forster’s powerful but suppressed explorations beyond the strictures of conventional society.

– Ansell
– Albergo Empedocle
– The Purple Envelope
– The Helping Hand
– The Rock
– The Life to Come
– Dr. Woolacott
– Arthur Snatchfold
– The Obelisk
– What Does It Matter? A Morality
– The Classical Annex
– The Torque
– The Other Boat
– Three Courses and a Dessert: Being a New and Gastronomic Version of the Game of Consequences