E. M. E. M. Forster
Published: 2020-08-25
Total Pages: 61
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E. M. Forster has filled this modern fantasy with wordplay and hidden allusions that allow it to function as an allegory on literary snobbery. The unnamed protagonist, a boy, has begun to discover the joy of literature; untutored, he plunges ahead uncritically and appreciates the popular and the classical with equal enthusiasm. He is, however, spiritually imprisoned in his parents' suburban home in "Surbiton," Agathox Lodge, appropriately a corruption of agathos, the Greek word for "good."