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The Longest Journey

E. M. Forster · 1907 CE · Novel · English · Modernist

Rickie Elliot, lame, orphaned and writing stories at Cambridge, marries the fiancée of a dead athlete and takes a post at her brother's public school, where the talk of tone and manliness closes over him. An aunt at Cadover then tells him that the rough young man drinking in her house is his mother's other son. Forster called it the book he was gladdest to have written, and took the title from Shelley.

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Genre
Coming-of-AgePsychological
Theme
Identity & SelfClass & InequalityIndividual vs SocietyNature vs Civilization
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
EverymanRebel / Outlaw
Plot structure
BildungsromanTragic Reversal
Symbol / motif
The TrainThe WildernessThe Tree
Conflict
vs Selfvs Society
Mode / tone
RealistTragicIronic
Culture / tradition
English

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