# Aspects of the novel

Author: Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70492

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## Summary

be happy, out of the lives of others, and that one isn't happy even then. One does it to cheat one's self and to stop one's mouth--but that is only, at the best, for a little. The wretched self is always there, always making us somehow a fresh anxiety. What it comes to is that it's not, that it's never, a happiness, any happiness at all, to _take_. The only safe thing is to give. It's what plays you least false.

## Chapters

- [ii. Now for the second device: the point of view from which the story](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/aspects-of-the-novel-70492/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/aspects-of-the-novel-70492/chapters/6/index.md)
- [ii. Every day for at least ten years together did my father resolve to](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/aspects-of-the-novel-70492/chapters/5/index.md)
- [ii. The air of the parlour being faint with the smell of sweet cake, I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/aspects-of-the-novel-70492/chapters/3/index.md)
- [ii. What I hate is myself--when I think that one has to take so much, to](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/aspects-of-the-novel-70492/chapters/1/index.md)
- [i. But as for that mark, I'm not sure about it; I don't believe it was](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/aspects-of-the-novel-70492/chapters/4/index.md)
- [i. All the preparations for the funeral ran easily and happily under](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/aspects-of-the-novel-70492/chapters/2/index.md)