ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Forster, in full Edward Morgan Forster, (born January 1, 1879, London, England-died June 7, 1970, Coventry, Warwickshire), British novelist, essayist, and social and literary critic. His fame rests largely on his novels Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924) and on a large body of criticism.

Detailed explanation-2: -Between 1910 and 1913 he wrote Maurice, a novel which reflected his own – then illegal – homosexuality. But though he made a large donation to the Homosexual Law Reform Society in the 1960s and occasionally wrote articles advocating reform, Maurice was not published until the year after Forster’s death (1971).

Detailed explanation-3: -Henry James was one of the most prolific writers of the 19th century. His most famous works included The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Bostonians (1886), and The Ambassadors (1903). Many of his tales, including “The Figure in the Carpet” (1896) and The Turn of the Screw (1898), are still widely read.

Detailed explanation-4: -An accomplished American writer who won the Nobel Prize for literature and the Pulitzer Prize for his book, The Grapes of Wrath (1939), John Steinbeck wrote profoundly about the economic problems faced by the rural class during the Great Depression.