The Longest Journey

Nov 27, 2025 4:06 AM

Author:E. M. Forster,Gilbert Adair

The Longest Journey

Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent, sets out from Cambridge full of hopes to become a writer. But when his stories are not successful he decides instead to marry the beautiful but shallow Agnes, agreeing to abandon his writing and become a schoolmaster at a second-rate public school. Giving up his hopes and values for those of the conventional world, he sinks into a world of petty conformity and bitter disappointments.

Reviews

A deliciously sweet story of new horizons and burgeoning love, this is Kinsella escapism at its finest.

—— Good Housekeeping

Brink's lyrical but spare writing evokes the harshness of the veld and the dream world created by the Bushmen. A book that lingers in the mind long after you have reached the last page

—— Daily Mail

A work of fidelity and imaginative freedom

—— Times Literary Supplement

Brave, rewarding and dignified

—— Time Out

Irresistible

—— Independent

Naguib Mahfouz's wonderfully readable family saga provides a riveting and accurate portrait of Egyptian society

—— Bookseller

His masterpiece

—— The Sunday Times

'Acidic and unforgiving...This hilariously accurate skewering of the mores - and the morons - of Hollywood left a deliciously vile taste in my mouth, and I loved it!

—— The New York Observer

'Irrestistably engaging'

—— Kirkus

'Witty and intelligent...just the thing for a lazy summer day'

—— Newsday

Genuine wit and charm

—— Image

Witty novel about life and love after divorce, Hollywood-style.

—— Daily Express

A bitchy and entertaining look at life in La-La Land

—— The Sun

A perfect poolside read

—— New Woman

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