The effort to see ‘through’ novels, not ‘round’ them – this is how E.M. Forster describes the driving force behind this book. He discards the weighty ‘historical’ view with its cumbersome apparatus of ‘tendencies’, ‘influences’ and ‘periods’. 

          Instead we are to imagine all novelists at work together at a circular room. With this welcome freshness of approach the author of the “Passage to India” discusses the various ways we can look at a novel.

          Aspects of the Novel, originally a course of Clark Lectures at Cambridge, is full of E. M. Forster’s habitual wit and wisdom.
 
CONTENTS:
1. INTRODUCTORY
2. THE STORY
3. PEOPLE
4. PEOPLE (continued)
5. THE PLOT
6. FANTASY
7. PROPHECY
8. PATTERN AND RHYTHM
9. CONCLUSION