This is a collection of eight lectured that EM Forster delivered in 1925 or so about the different elements of the novel. I think it mostly still holds up, so long as your aim is not grad or professional literary criticism (and probably still plenty if it is). The book is divided into the different “aspects” like story, plot, people, style and rhythm, etc. The primary distinction that I think makes this collection interesting is between story and plot. And this is something that I […]