"A very long journey"

Japanese: 《いと長き旅路》 - いとながきたびじ
"A very long journey"

…After spending a few months in Germany as a governess in 1905, he published Where Angels Fear to Tread, which deals with the conflict between the conventional and hypocritical British Herriton family and an open-minded and materialistic Italian who marries a young widow who has run away from the family, with sympathy for the latter. In his second work, A Long Journey (1907), he portrays the protagonist Ricky, who is torn between three people: Ansell, who represents freedom and truth in Cambridge; Agnes, who represents the philistine world in London; and Steve, a child of nature in Wiltshire. In A Room with a View (1908) and Howards End (1910), he also wrote in precise prose about the necessity and difficulty of combining with a different culture, reaching the level of a kind of critique of civilization. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "The Long Journey" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…05年家庭教師として数ヵ月ドイツに滞在したのち,因襲的で偽善的なイギリスのヘリトン家の人々と,この家を抜け出した若い未亡人と結婚する開放的で即物的なイタリア人との対立を,後者に共感を寄せつつ扱った《天使も踏むを恐れるところ》を発表。第2作《いと長き旅路》(1907)では,自由と真実を代表するケンブリッジのアンセル,ロンドンの俗物世界のアグネス,およびウィルトシャーの自然児スティーブという3者の間で揺れ動く主人公リッキーを描いた。《見晴しのある部屋》(1908),《ハワーズ・エンド》(1910)でも,異質の文化との結合の必要とその困難さを精緻な文章で語り,一種の文明批評の域にまで達した。…

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