Forster once described The Longest Journey as the book I am most glad to have written.
An introspective novel of manners at once comic and tragic, it tells of a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent.
He sets out full of hope to become a writer, but gives up his aspirations for those of the conventional world, gradually sinking into a life of petty conformity and bitter disappointments.
Penguin Books Ltd Longest journey, paperback/e m forster
