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Fiction · 1907 · English

The Longest Journey

by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

About this book

The Longest Journey by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster explores autobiographical fiction, england — fiction, teachers — fiction.

From the opening pages: “It was philosophy. They were discussing the existence of objects. Do they exist only when there is some one to look at them? Or have they a real existence of their own? It is all very interesting, but at the same time it is difficult. Hence the cow. She seemed to make things easier. She was so familiar, so solid, that surely the truths that she illustrated would in time become familiar and solid also. Is the cow there or not? This was better than deciding between objectivity and subjectivity. So at Oxford, just at the same time, one was asking, “What do our rooms look like in the…”

Author
E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster
First published
1907
Category
Fiction
Language
English

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