The Longest Journey

E. M. Forster once described his second novel The Longest Journey (1907) as the book "I am most glad to have written." 


An introspective novel of manners at once comic and tragic, it tells the story of struggling writer turned schoolmaster Rickie Elliott and his problematic marriage to the unappealing Agnes Pembroke. Rickie abandons his aspirations for those of the conventional world, gradually sinking into a life of petty conformity and bitter disappointments. 


"In its arbitrary departures from the proprieties of the modern novel there is genuine refreshment and even special claim upon our affections." --L. Trilling 


This new edition of Forster’s coming of age classic includes an E. M. Forster image gallery as well as a link to a free audio recording of The Longest Journey.