Two Cheers for Democracy: A Selection 2023 Paperback E.M. Forster

Būklė nuotraukose. Labai gera, tik šiek tiek pasilankstę popierinio knygos aplanko krašteliai. A selection of the essays published by E M Forster in 1951. PREFACE BY HENRY MANCE: The originally sixty-nine essays in Two Cheers for Democracy – we have cut them down to twenty-five – date from 1925 to 1951 (an earlier volume of essays, Abinger Harvest, appeared in 1936). Hence the word 'Selection' in the subtitle of our volume: we have made our own selection because we felt that some of the essays are not particularly interesting nowadays. ‘To give an idea of the extraordinary charm of these essays is impossible,' wrote Edwin Muir in the Observer in 1951. 'It seems to reside in a curious inconstancy or inconsistency. Mr Forster begins his operation upon us by bringing a tolerant and fair judgment to everything he touches, a balance; then the balance overturns, he is seized with a deeper apprehension, and throws everything over, for here is the real truth.’ That is why Forster’s style is so seductive and so unusual: he is thinking aloud and is not afraid to be distracted. And through it all he treats the reader as his equal.