The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories

Written by E. M. Forster

Narrated by Barnaby Edwards

The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories is a collection of short stories which Forster wrote during the prewar years, most of which were symbolic fantasies or fables. It includes:

• The Story of a Panic
• The Other Side of the Hedge
• The Celestial Omnibus
• Other Kingdom
• The Curate's Friend
•  The Road from Colonus

E.M. Forster (born January 1, 1879, London) was a British novelist, essayist, and social and literary critic. He is most renowned and admired for his novels Howards End (1910), A Passage to India (1924), and his large body of criticism.

• Language: English
• Publisher: SNR Audio
• Release date: Jan 1, 2024
• ISBN: 9781805360063

E. M. Forster

E.M. Forster (1879-1970) was an English novelist. Born in London to an Anglo-Irish mother and a Welsh father, Forster moved with his mother to Rooks Nest, a country house in rural Hertfordshire, in 1883, following his father’s death from tuberculosis. He received a sizeable inheritance from his great-aunt, which allowed him to pursue his studies and support himself as a professional writer. Forster attended King’s College, Cambridge, from 1897 to 1901, where he met many of the people who would later make up the legendary Bloomsbury Group of such writers and intellectuals as Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, and John Maynard Keynes. A gay man, Forster lived with his mother for much of his life in Weybridge, Surrey, where he wrote the novels A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India. Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature sixteen times without winning, Forster is now recognized as one of the most important writers of twentieth century English fiction, and is remembered for his unique vision of English life and powerful critique of the inequities of class.