The Celestial Omnibus: And Other Stories

by E. M. Forster

Overview

"Though the fair blue sky was above me, and the green spring woods beneath me, and the kindest of friends around me, yet I became terribly frightened, more frightened than I ever wish to become again, frightened in a way I never have known either before or after. . ." 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442102125
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	02/01/2009
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Edward Morgan Forster was born in 1879. He wrote six novels, including A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India, as well as numerous stories and essays. His travels in India and Egypt resulted in The Hill of Devi and Alexandria: A History and a Guide. He died in 1970.

Date of Birth:

January 1, 1879

Date of Death:

June 7, 1970

Place of Birth:

London

Place of Death:

Coventry, England

Education:

B. A. in classics, King's College, Cambridge, 1900; B. A. in history, 1901; M.A., 1910