E. M. Forster, Abinger Harvest

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Abinger Harvest

is a mixture of autobiography and criticism, a collection of around eighty articles, essays, reviews, poems and notes written by Forster for various periodicals since 1903. The book is divided into five sections: “The Present”, a commentary on contemporary life and beliefs containing “Notes on the English Character”, in which he famously says “we are

perfide Albion

, the island of hypocrites, the people who have built up an Empire with a Bible in one hand, a pistol in the other, and financial concessions in both pockets”; “Books”, which is an assembly of some of Forster's literary criticism; “The Past”, a number of pieces about history and historical figures; “The East”, a number of essays on Indian and “Oriental” subjects from Marco Polo…

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Citation: Childs, Peter. "Abinger Harvest". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 January 2001 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=6877, accessed 19 March 2024.]

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