The Longest Journey
by E. M. Forster
Publisher: Blackwood 1907
ISBN/ASIN: 034055231X
ISBN-13: 9780340552315
Number of pages: 360
Description:
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.
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