The Abinger Edition of E. M. Forster's Abinger Harvest presents the definitive text of a book which David Garnett called 'one of the most delightful collections of occasional writings I have read'. In this immensely engaging selection of articles, essays, reviews and poems Forster writes divertingly on chess and Mickey Mouse, liberty in England and life in India, Marco Polo and the Emperor Babur, Egypt and the Orient. Here too are Forster's reflections on other writers, ranging from Proust to T. E. Lawrence, Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad to T. S. Eliot. Included also are the complete texts of two pageants Forster wrote for the Surrey village of Abinger, where he lived: 'The Abinger Pageant' and 'England's Pleasant Land'.
