Longest Journey
by E M Forster
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WESTBANK, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
New York, U.S.A.: Quality Paperback Book Club, , 1997. Soft cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Rickie Elliot is a student at early 20th century Cambridge, a university that seems like paradise to him, amongst bright if cynical companions, when he receives a visit from two friends, an engaged young woman, Agnes Pembroke, and her older brother, Herbert. The Pembrokes are Rickie's only friends from home. An orphan who grew up living with cousins, he was sent to a public (boarding) school where he was shunned and bullied because of his lame foot, an inherited weakness, and frail body. Agnes, as it happens, is engaged to Gerald, now in the army, who was one of the sturdy youths who bullied Rickie at school. Rickie is not brilliant at argument, but he is intensely responsive to poetry and art, and is accepted within a circle of philosophical and intellectual fellow-students led by a brilliant but especially cynical aspiring philosopher, Stewart Ansell, who refuses, when he is introduced to her, even to acknowledge that Agnes exists
Synopsis
"The cow is there," said Ansell, lighting a match and holding it out over the carpet. No one spoke. He waited till the end of the match fell off. Then he said again, "She is there, the cow. There, now."
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- Seller
- MAD HATTER BOOKSTORE (CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 005403
- Title
- Longest Journey
- Author
- E M Forster
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Quality Paperback Book Club,
- Place of Publication
- New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1997
- Pages
- 414
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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