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Why E.M. Forster translates to film

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19920503
Author:James Verniere

Edwardian novelist Edward Morgan Forster has become the Stephen King of the art-house circuit.

That he has attained such status is indisputable. In eight years, five of E.M. Forster's six novels have been translated to the screen, including "A Passage to India" (1984), "A Room With a View" (1985), "Maurice" (1987), "Where Angels Fear To Tread" (1992) and the current release, "Howards End." But why is his work so popular with modern audiences?

You need look no further than his milieu and his heroines. A slyly comic observer of the British middle class, Forster followed Jane Austen in ...

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