The Longest Journey

Trilling described The Longest Journey as "perhaps the most brilliant, the most dramatic, and the most passionate" of E.M. Forster's works. Certainly it's the most autobiographical - but its form confuses many. Full of sudden death, hopeless love, and quaintly doomed relationships - and yet for all that, it's an enormously engaging work. It was Forster's own favourite of his works; he felt that in Stephen he had created a living being