E. M. Forster 
The Longest Journey 

The Longest Journey is a bildungsroman by E. M. Forster, first published in 1907. It is the second of Forster’s six published novels, following Where Angels Fear to Tread and preceding A Room with a View and Howards End. It was Forster’s favourite among his own novels.E. M. Forster once described The Longest Journey as the book ’I am most glad to have written.’ An introspective novel of manners at once comic and tragic, it tells of a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent. He sets out full of hope to become a writer, but gives up his aspirations for those of the conventional world, gradually sinking into a life of petty conformity and bitter disappointments.