Author: M. Forster, E.

Cited by

• Lionel Shriver (1)
  • IN: Property: Stories Between Two Novellas (2018) Short Stories, American
    EPIGRAPH: I bought a wood [ . . . ]. It is not a large wood — it contains scarcely any trees, and it is intersected, blast it, by a public footpath. Still, it is the first property that I have owned, so it is right that other people should participate in my shame, and should ask themselves, in accents that will vary in horror, this very important question: What is the effect of property upon the character? [ . . . ] If you own things, what’s their effect on you? What’s the effect on me of my wood? In the first place, it makes me feel heavy. [ . . . ] In the second place, it makes me feel it ought to be larger.
    FROM: “My Wood”, (1926), Essay, UK