E.M. Forster documentary

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  @GordonGibson-q8e · 3 years ago

  The Christopher Isherwood interview captures the surprising and unexpected element in E. M. Forster's life he was not self pitying shamed suicidal or even depressed he was for the most part content with his life, friends, adopted family and his work.

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  @kerrymansell8102 · 3 years ago

  A Passage to India is the only book Ive read and when I'd finished it, I immediately read it again. It contains the kind of riches that satisfy my heart completely.

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  @Bananadiva1 · 5 years ago

  What a wonderful documentary about an extraordinary man and writer.

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  @tothelighthouse9843 · 2 years ago

  Brief mention is made of the £8000 bequeathed to Forster by his great aunt Marianne Thornton, but that was an absolutely life-changing amount. <br><br>It&apos;s £1,318,266 in today&apos;s currency.

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  @TheChelzin8or · 3 years ago

  So many of you may not have noticed, but the people narrating this documentary have been in a film that was by E.M Forster and directed by James Ivory and Ishmail Merchant. I can hear James Wilby doing a lot of narrating in this who played the character &apos;Maurice&apos; in the film and a few other actors as well.

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  @haraldv2383 · 3 years ago

  Just excellent. He&apos;s my favourite author in modernist English literature, a brilliant and gentle mind.

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  @rattyrachel4316 · 5 years ago

  So glad you posted this. Admired Forster as a writer, now, because of this documentary, I appreciate him as the man and intellectual force that he was. Thank you kindly.

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  @cheri238 · 4 years ago (edited)

  &quot;Tolerance, good temper, sympathy,&quot; E.E. Cummings. All of his literary works, novels, essays, short stories, letters, are a journey &nbsp;into a soul of one of our extradinary writers.I would have loved enormously to have read his diaries. Curiously, &nbsp;I have known him intimately with his marvelous words. Thank you for this documentary 🙏 ❤️

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  @constancewalsh3646 · 2 years ago

  One of the very best documentaries of one of the very best writers in the English language. His sensitivity has no equal, which is so beautifully portrayed<br>in this video. My deepest gratitude to the makers of soul in these films.

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  @maximillion8442 · 4 years ago

  Oof the bit abt May made me cry<br>What a warmhearted family, and it&apos;s such a relief to hear he didnt die lonely

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  @georgiahogue8588 · 4 years ago

  THANK YOU for these. I’ve spent this entire rainy day watching them and finding out about so many of my favorite authors. <br>Now I want to reread all their books.

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  @jeffwatkins352 · 3 years ago

  Lovely, enriching documentary. As a gay man of 70, Forster&apos;s journey rings powerfully true for me. I must thank the Ismael/Merchant and Lean films for introducing me to his brilliant prose. How lucky we are for all these brilliant minds.

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