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The Road from Colonus

E. M. Forster

First published March 1911
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

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."

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
March 1911 Cover The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories Sidgwick & Jackson Collection 143
February 1912 The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories Sidgwick & Jackson Collection 143
March 1920 The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories Sidgwick & Jackson Collection 143
September 1923 Cover The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories Sidgwick & Jackson Collection 143
1944 Cover Pause to Wonder Julian Messner Anthology 540
1947 Cover Collected Short Stories of E. M. Forster Sidgwick & Jackson Collection 100
July 1947 Cover The Collected Tales of E. M. Forster Alfred A. Knopf Collection 125
September 1947 Cover The Collected Tales of E. M. Forster Alfred A. Knopf Collection 125
February 1952 Cover The Collected Tales of E. M. Forster Alfred A. Knopf Collection 125
1967 Cover De hemelse paardetram en andere verhalen Meulenhoff Collection 97
February 1968 Cover The Collected Tales of E. M. Forster Modern Library Collection 125
1970 The Impact of Fiction: An Anthology of Short Stories Cummings Publishing Company Anthology 319
1972 Cover Collected Short Stories Penguin Books Collection 95
September 1976 Cover The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories Vintage Books Collection 125
1977 Cover Modern Stories in English Copp Clark Pitman Anthology 77
July 1980 Cover L'omnibus celeste Feltrinelli Collection 101
1988 Cover Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Stories Macmillan Anthology 466
September 1997 Cover The Machine Stops and Other Stories Andre Deutsch Collection 75
October 2010 The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories Project Gutenberg Collection
October 2012 Cover The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories Start Publishing Collection |6
October 2018 Cover The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories Interactive Media Collection
April 2024 Cover The Machine Stops and Other Stories Penguin Books Collection 129