Description

This Forster Country Guide is a reminder of what so easily became known in a modest landscape. Once comprehended, it awakens the imagination of those who live in it and those who watch it from the commuter train window. It is one of those rare scenes which are an integral part of English literature, and also a personal experience which grows in importance the more one thinks about it. It is where the young novelist began to evaluate the soul of the English bourgeoisie. He was a small boy when his mother rented a farmhouse called Rooks Nest in Stevenage and he was to observe with shocking  clarity the English class system; also the beautiful unemphatic English scenery. This is the land which inspired the new towns and an entirely different urban view of life from what had previously been called ‘living in the country’ which had for so long been the Englishman’s ideal.

Paperback: 25 pages
Published by: The Friends of Forster Country, 2016
Product Dimensions: 14.6 x 21 x 0.3 cm