Longest Journey, The

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | 311 words | Copyright

Longest Journey, The (1907), a novel by E. M. Forster.

It describes the short, frustrated life of Rickie Elliot, born lame, a schoolmaster and an aspiring writer; the plot centres on his relationship with his healthy ‘pagan’ half-brother, Stephen Wonham. Rickie dies while saving Stephen's life.

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