The Longest Journey
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E. M. Forster
(3,7 Sterne; 15 Bewertungen)
Frederick Elliot is a student at early 20th century Cambridge, a university that seems like paradise to him, amongst bright if cynical companions, when he receives a visit from two friends, an engaged young woman, Agnes Pembroke, and her older brother, Herbert. The Pembrokes are Rickie’s only friends from home. An orphan who grew up living with cousins, he was sent to a public (boarding) school where he was shunned and bullied because of his lame foot, an inherited weakness, and frail body. Agnes, as it happens, is engaged to Gerald, now in the army, who was one of the sturdy youths who bullied Rickie at school. Rickie is not brilliant at argument, but he is intensely responsive to poetry and art, and is accepted within a circle of philosophical and intellectual fellow-students led by a brilliant but especially cynical aspiring philosopher, Stuart Ansell, who refuses, when he is introduced to her, even to acknowledge that Agnes exists. (from Wikipedia) (10 hr 27 min)
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Dangerous Journeymann
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Not your typical Forster Novel. Very sad ending, and that brother in law, Mr.Pembroke, didn't get near the comeuppance I thought he had coming to him! I'd have had him married to a detestable wife, like his sister, but, I'm just like that.