First printing of Forster's classic discussion of the English-language novel, in a remarkably well-preserved example of the scarce dust jacket.
Near fine in near fine jacket.
Price: $1,500.00
"Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain."
What is a novel about? —Oh, about 50,000 words. Subject to adjustment for inflation, Forster's answer to the eternal question still stands as one of the better ones. As Virginia Woolf so rightly said in response to ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL, the novel is a subject about which nobody knows anything, but Forster is perceptive, lucid, and intelligent whether in error or out of it. ASPECTS includes Forster's famous distinction between story and plot as well as his great and resolutely anti-historical vision of all novelists at work in a great circular room, the living and the dead alike suspended out of time, concerned not with the "demon of chronology" but with the stifling, airless spaces of the human heart.
Read more: Kirkpatrick, A Bibliography of E.M. Forster, A12a; Stape, E.M. Forster: Critical Assessments.
First edition. London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1927. 7.25'' x 5''. Original gilt-lettered oxblood cloth. In original champagne dust jacket printed in green. Original publisher's catalogue and postcard laid in. 224 pages. Very slight edgewear to jacket, light foxing and toning to jacket spine. Minor shelfwear to boards, faint traces of soil to top edge and dust jacket. Overall, sound and sharp.
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