This latest edition of Lonely Planet's Experience Great Britain travel guide reveals exciting new ways to explore this iconic region with all the tools you need to create your own unique trip.Discover amazing local experiences from combing beaches for prehistoric fossils along Britain's Jurassic Coast; to raising a glass to award-winning English fizz in the vineyards of the southe...

Focusing on the literary works and career of British novelist E.M. Forster (1879-1970), this book argues that the writer adapted a much older literary form, the pastoral, to the purposes of writing about modern British experience. The publication points out that Forster's pastoral fiction challenged conventional parameters for the British novel, allowing for the emergence of his subsequent modernist classic, A Passage to India (including its critique of British imperialism). The monograph ...

Stepping into the Rabbit Hole for the fourth time, you descend into madness. But is madness zany or just insane? Does the world, the universe, shift under your feet, or is your mind slipping into another realm of being? Maybe that safe reality you so treasure is a mirage, that all knowing, wise god actually having the deep wisdom of a teenage pizza delivery boy, who may just be an alien. Then again, we all may just be in hell.Twenty-five authors take you on trips into madness. Twen...

A Room With A View by E.M. Forster is at its heart a classic love story, played out within the strict social and class structures of Edwardian England. The author explores many aspects of his contemporary society, but the story could have been written in any time, as the themes are universal. At times the prose is magically descriptive, the dialogue razor sharp. Lucy, the heroine, must find herself, as well as confront the restrictions and expectations of her upbringing in society, and her...