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Forster dismantles the timelines, pigeonholes, and \u201cpseudo-scholarship\u201d that too often flatten the living art of the novel. <em data-start=\"357\" data-end=\"379\">Aspects of the Novel<\/em>, drawn from his celebrated 1927 Clark Lectures at Cambridge, offers a master class in reading that is as playful as it is penetrating.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"518\" data-end=\"954\">Forster invites us into a \u201ccircular room\u201d where every novelist\u2014past, present, and future\u2014sits side by side, writing at once. 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