# Aspects of the Novel

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- Authors: [Frank Kermode](https://www.bookquiver.com/frank-kermode)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4144-169-6
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2005-09-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Collection of literary lectures by E. M. Forster, published in 1927. For the purposes of his study, Forster defines the novel as " any fictitious prose work over 50,000 words." Forester's wit and lively, informed originality have made this study of the novel a classic. Avoiding the chronological approach of what he calls " pseudoscholarship," Forster freely examines elements that all English-language novels have in common: story, people, plot, fantasy, prophecy, pattern and rhythm.