The Celestial Omnibus

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The Celestial Omnibus
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Cover of the first edition
Author E. M. Forster
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Genre Fantasy
Publisher Sidgwick & Jackson
Publication date
1911
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages165

The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories is the title of a collection of short stories by English writer E. M. Forster, first published in 1911. It contains stories written over the previous ten years, and together with the collection The Eternal Moment (1928) forms part of Forster's Collected Short Stories (1947).

Contents

The Celestial Omnibus contains:


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