OTHER ARTS BY E.M. FORSTER

Edward Morgan Forster, OM (January 1, 1879 – June 7, 1970), was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society.

But he was also private tutor, lecturer on Italian art and history; he served in the Red Cross in Egypt during the first world war, though bequests made employment unnecessary.

While he was stationed in Alexandria with the Red Cross during World War I, English novelist E. M. Forster (1879-1970) used the pen name "Pharos" for articles he wrote for the local newspapers The Egyptian Mail and The Egyptian Gazette.  He took the name from the ancient lighthouse of Alexandria, and his essays were indeed beacons of peace and humane culture in the darkness of war.

Back in England after the war Forster continued to use the pseudonym occasionally up until 1920 (sometimes shortened to "P"). In 1923 many of these Alexandria pieces, written in both Egypt and England, were collected in Pharos and Pharillon, an unrecognized gem of a book, beautifully handprinted, bound, and published by his friends Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press.

In this new and, unfortunately, war-torn 21st century these essays—along with Forster's other works—entertain and enlighten modern readers, who yield to the charm of Forster's style and continue to find his views and perspectives relevant. 

Short stories

• The Celestial Omnibus (and other stories) (1911)
• The Eternal Moment and other stories (1928)
• Collected Short Stories (1947) a combination of the above two titles, containing:
  • "The Story of A Panic"
  • "The Other Side Of The Hedge"
  • "The Celestial Omnibus"
  • "Other Kingdom"
  • "The Curate's Friend"
  • "The Road From Colonus"
  • "The Machine Stops"
  • "The Point Of It"
  • "Mr Andrews"
  • "Co-ordination"
  • "The Story Of The Cheesy Siren"
  • "The Eternal Moment"
• The Life to Come and other stories (1972) (posthumous) containing the following stories written between approximately 1903 and 1960:
  • "Ansell"
  • "Albergo Empedocle"
  • "The Purple Envelope"
  • "The Helping Hand"
  • "The Rock"
  • "The Life to Come"
  • "Dr Woolacott"
  • "Arthur Snatchfold"
  • "The Obelisk"
  • "What Does It Matter? A Morality"
  • "The Classical Annex"
  • "The Torque"
  • "The Other Boat"
  • "Three Courses and a Dessert: Being a New and Gastronomic Version of the Old Game of Consequences"
  • "My Wood"

 Plays and pageants

• Abinger Pageant (1934)
• England's Pleasant Land (1940)

 Film scripts

• A Diary for Timothy (1945) (directed by Humphrey Jennings, spoken by Michael Redgrave)

Libretto

• Billy Budd (1951) (based on Melville's novel, for the opera by Britten)

Collections of essays and broadcasts

• Abinger Harvest (1936)
• Two Cheers for Democracy (1951)

Literary criticism

• Aspects of the Novel (1927)
• The Feminine Note in Literature (posthumous) (2001)

Travel writing

• Alexandria: A History and Guide (1922)
• Pharos and Pharillon (A Novelist's Sketchbook of Alexandria Through the Ages) (1923)
• The Hill of Devi (1953)

 Miscellaneous writings

• Selected Letters (1983–85)
• Commonplace Book (1985)
• Locked Diary (2007) (held at King's College, Cambridge)

 Notable films based upon novels by Forster

• A Passage to India (1984), dir. David Lean
• A Room with a View (1985), dir. James Ivory
• Maurice (1987), dir. James Ivory
• Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991), dir. Charles Sturridge
• Howards End (1992), dir. James Ivory