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Forster

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For·ster  (fôrstr), E(dward) M(organ) 1879-1970.
British writer whose novels, such as A Room with a View (1908) and Howards End (1910), explore the emotional and moral shortcomings of England's upper classes.
Forster [ˈfɔːstə]
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(Biographies / Forster, E(dward) M(organ) (1879-1970) M, English, WRITING: novelist, WRITING: short-story writer, WRITING: essayist) E(dward) M(organ). 1879-1970, English novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. His best-known novels are A Room with a View (1908), Howard's End (1910), and A Passage to India (1924), in all of which he stresses the need for sincerity and sensitivity in human relationships and criticizes English middle-class values


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On this very 2nd of October he had dismissed James Forster, because that luckless youth had brought him shaving-water at eighty-four degrees Fahrenheit instead of eighty-six; and he was awaiting his successor, who was due at the house between eleven and half-past.
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Darcy, that I expressed myself uncommonly well just now, when I was teasing Colonel Forster to give us a ball at Meryton?
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