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Title: The Road from Colonus Title Record # 920028
Author: E. M. Forster
Date: 1911-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: Sep-2008 The introduction for the collection The Celestial Omnibus says this story was written prior to world-war one. A more accurate first publication date has not been determined yet. According to The Supernatural Index, the first publication was in The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories, Sidwick & Jackson, 1911. Per The Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster, this is a story of "supernatural forces startling [its protagonist] out of [his] repressed mode of life and thought."
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Year Language Title
1967Translated by G. W. Roos
Dutch De weg van Colonus

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories 1911-03-00 E. M. Forster Sidgwick & Jackson  
3/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
164
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories 1912-02-00 E. M. Forster Sidgwick & Jackson     164
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Checkmark
The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories 1920-03-00 E. M. Forster Sidgwick & Jackson     164
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories 1923-09-00 E. M. Forster Sidgwick & Jackson     164
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Checkmark
Pause to Wonder 1944-00-00 ed. Marjorie Fischer, Rolfe Humphries Julian Messner  
$3.00?$: US dollar
xx+
572
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Collected Short Stories of E. M. Forster 1947-00-00 E. M. Forster Sidgwick & Jackson  
10/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
vii+
246
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
omni  
The Collected Tales of E. M. Forster 1947-00-00 E. M. Forster Alfred A. Knopf  
$2.75?$: US dollar
ix+
308
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
omni  
De hemelse paardetram en andere verhalen 1967-00-00 E. M. Forster Meulenhoff (Meesters der Fantastische Vertelkunst #6) F6
ƒ2.50?ƒ: Dutch guilder
187
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Sanne Sannes Checkmark
The Impact of Fiction: An Anthology of Short Stories 1970-00-00 ed. Ada Lou Carson, Herbert L. Carson Cummings Publishing Company 50001   xii+
433
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Checkmark
The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories 1976-09-00 E. M. Forster Vintage Books 0-394-72176-4
$3.95?$: US dollar
vii+
143
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Checkmark
Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Stories 1988-00-00 ed. James H. Pickering Macmillan 0-02-395541-4   ix+
1533
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Tom Tomson Checkmark
The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories 2010-10-17 E. M. Forster Project Gutenberg 34089    
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories 2012-10-00 E. M. Forster Start Publishing (Start Classics) 978-1-68146-029-1
$0.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories 2018-10-03 E. M. Forster Interactive Media 978-1-78724-902-8
$4.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
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