A review by oldpondnewfrog
Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forster

3.0

Entertaining and useful. Forster successfully explains how novels do and don't work (for him, at least) through constituent parts of story, characters, use of fantasy, "prophecy", plot, etc.. e.g.: A successful story keeps the king wondering what happens next. Round and flat characters, and the uses of each. Plot events are a door through which the book is made to pass, emerging in an altered form.

Uses helpful examples from literature throughout.