E.M. Forster, Middle Manager (from NYRB)

The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929–1960

edited by Mary Lago, Linda K. Hughes, and Elizabeth MacLeod Walls, with a foreword by P.N. Furbank

University of Missouri Press, 477 pp., $59.95

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In the taxonomy of English writing, E.M. Forster is not an exotic creature. We file him under Notable English Novelist, common or garden variety.