Taliansko okolo roku 1900. Lucy Honeychurchová, mladá Angličanka, navštívi po prvý raz v živote Florenciu. Tu stretne mladého excentrického mladíka Georgea Emersona. Po návrate do Anglicka sa musí Lucy rozhodnúť, buď sa vydá za svojho snúbenca Cecila alebo bude nasledovať svoje srdce a zvíťazí George.
Mark Forster's book "Get Everything Done and Still Have Time to Play" took an entirely new approach to time management. One of his most important points was that once we have taken on a commitment, prioritising does not work because we need to do everything relating to that commitment. In the six years since he wrote the book as he has reached thousands of people through writing, seminars and coaching, he has continued to develop and refine his methods . He has now perfected even more effective methods of getting everything done through the introduction of some radical new ideas, including closed lists, the manyana principle and the "will do" list. He is brilliant at helping people to use new forms of communication effectively so that they do not become a tyrant. The result is a complete system which will enable almost anyone to complete one day's work in one day.
Like his novel A Room with a View, E. M. Forster's Where Angels Fear to Tread focuses on a group of English men and women living and traveling in Italy. A young Englishman journeys to Tuscany to rescue his late brother's wife from what appears to be an unsuitable romance with an Italian of little fortune. In the events surrounding that match and its fateful consequences, Forster weaves an exciting and eventful tale that intriguingly contrasts English and Italian lives and sensibilities. As in Forster novels, among them Howards End and A Passage to India, Where Angels Fear to Tread reveals the author's deep fascination with all of human experience — sexual, moral, spiritual, imaginative, material. Acutely observant of the ways of the English middle class, he is as critical here of its snobbishness, greed, and cultural insensitivity as he is respectful of its decency and kindness, common sense, and goodwill. This splendid novel reveals the great breadth of his gifts as both storyteller and humanist — attributes that continue to make him one of the twentieth century's most admired novelists.
Maurice is heartbroken over unrequited love, which opened his heart and mind to his own sexual identity. In order to be true to himself, he goes against the grain of society’s often unspoken rules of class, wealth, and politics.Forster understood that his homage to same-sex love, if published when he completed it in 1914, would probably end his career. Thus, Maurice languished in a drawer for fifty-seven years, the author requesting it be published only after his death (along with his stories about homosexuality later collected in The Life to Come).Since its release in 1971, Maurice has been widely read and praised. It has been, and continues to be, adapted for major stage productions, including the 1987 Oscar-nominated film adaptation starring Hugh Grant and James Wilby.
ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL is a unique attempt to examine the novel afresh, rejecting the traditional methods of classification by chronology or subject- matter.
Zana nie je práve nadšená, keď si jej nedávno ovdovený otec nájde novú ženu. A ešte k tomu do jej života vtrhne Brian, ktorý sa teraz nedobrovoľne stal jej nevlastným bratom! Brian si myslí, že Zanin otec sa oženil len kvôli peniazom, a chová sa neuveriteľne protivne... ale napriek tomu na Zanu zapôsobí svoju energetickú mužnosťou!
Název svého stěžejního díla, Cesty do Indie, převzal Forster od Walta Whitmana. Zatímco však americký básník tak koncem 60. let 19. století pojmenoval skladbu oslavující otevření Suezského průplavu a vyjadřující naději ve sbratření lidí všech ras, u britského romanopisce bere na sebe téma možného porozumění mezi obyvateli různých kontinentů podstatně trpčejší a ironičtější podobu. Tak jako na šachovnici postavil Forster proti sobě dva tábory: na jednu stranu povýšeneckou anglickou menšinu, na stranu druhou místní indickou elitu, reprezentovanou doktorem Azízem, muslimským chirurgem, který musí snášet ponižování ve vlastní zemi. Mezi nimi hraje svůj part liberální anglický učitel Fielding, jenž si za sympatie k domorodému obyvatelstvu vyslouží od svých krajanů podezřívavé opovržení. Přestože Forsterův román v prvé řadě odhaluje lidsky nedůstojné koloniální praktiky, jeho poselství je mnohem obecnější – dotýká se možností a překážek komunikace nejen mezi příslušníky rozdílných národů či kultur, ale i mezi lidmi vůbec. Proto také bývá považován za významný mezník v dějinách britské literatury 20. století.
