The Eternal Moment and other Stories.

Forster (E.M.)

The Eternal Moment and other Stories.

Description: FIRST EDITION, half-title and final page of text with faint partial browning to inner margin as usual, pp.[vii], 188, crown 8vo, original maroon cloth, backstrip and front cover lettered and bordered in gilt, a little rubbing to extremities, dustjacket in two pieces (separated along lower joint-fold) with loss to browned backstrip panel, good

Publication Details: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1928

Notes: The copy of critic Peter Burra, with his pencilled ownership inscription to the flyleaf. Burra's most celebrated essay was 'The Novels of E.M. Forster', first printed in 1934 and subsequently used as the Introduction for the Everyman edition of 'A Passage to India' - it was praised by Forster himself, who called it 'a great privilege for an author to be analysed so penetratingly'.A collection of six stories, with 'The Machine Stops' - what the author called 'a reaction to one of the earlier heavens of H.G. Wells' - and the title story being the most substantial of these, and ranking amongst F...moreThe copy of critic Peter Burra, with his pencilled ownership inscription to the flyleaf. Burra's most celebrated essay was 'The Novels of E.M. Forster', first printed in 1934 and subsequently used as the Introduction for the Everyman edition of 'A Passage to India' - it was praised by Forster himself, who called it 'a great privilege for an author to be analysed so penetratingly'.A collection of six stories, with 'The Machine Stops' - what the author called 'a reaction to one of the earlier heavens of H.G. Wells' - and the title story being the most substantial of these, and ranking amongst Forster's best contributions to the form. HIDE

Bibliography: (Kirkpatrick A13a)