Battersea Rise
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., (1955).
Price: $25.00
Hardcover. First edition. Small octavo. Spine faintly tanned, near fine in decorated boards as issued. The first chapter of Forster's last major book, a biography of his great-aunt Marianne Thornton, who had a considerable influence upon his family and his writing (the title taken from the name of the family estate). *Kirkpatrick* A33.
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E.M. Forster
birth name: Edward Morgan Forster
born: 1/1/1879
died: 6/7/1970
nationality: Great Britain
Biography
British novelist best known for supplying filmmakers Merchant-Ivory with plots from his novels such as A Passage to India, A Room with a View, Howard's End, and Maurice.more