The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories

Summary

The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories is a collection of short stories which Forster wrote during the prewar years, most of which were symbolic fantasies or fables. It includes:

• The Story of a Panic


• The Other Side of the Hedge


• The Celestial Omnibus


• Other Kingdom


• The Curate's Friend


•  The Road from Colonus

E.M. Forster (born January 1, 1879, London) was a British novelist, essayist, and social and literary critic. He is most renowned and admired for his novels Howards End (1910), A Passage to India (1924), and his large body of criticism.