London, Thames and Hudson, 1978. 1st Edition 8vo, 240 x 190mm. 128pp with 122 b/w illustrations. Hardcover in publisher's cloth bindings with dust jacket in fine condition. King examines every facet of Forster's intriguing personality, sympathetically probing the conflicts in his heredity between a raffish bohemianism and a staid respectability and in his life between the demands of his sexual nature and the dominating power of his mother. A compelling picture of Forster and his work emerges with fascinating glimpses of the close friends who affected his emotional life and of the many personalities he encountered, including among others, members of the Bloomsbury circle, D.H. Lawrence, C.P. Cavafy, Joe Ackerley and Benjamin Britten.  Bookseller Inventory # 000937          

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