E. M. Forster's copy, inscribed to him on the front free endpaper "Morgan Forster, from Christopher Morris, May 1962 with affection and esteem", with the "This book belongs to E. M. Forster". Morris was a History fellow at King's College, Cambridge, from 1930-93. He and his wife Helen, likewise a Cambridge don, but teaching English literature, frequently hosted Forster on his return visits to his alma mater. The Liber Amoris was described by Thomas de Quincey as Hazlitt's "explosion of frenzy... to empty his overburdened spirit" after an ill fated infatuation with his landlord's daughter. The tragic tale of frustrated love would no doubt have appealed to Forster's sensibility. This New Universal Library edition is a verbatim reprint of the 1823 first edition.
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