"The Life to Come" is a

short story A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest ...

by English writer

E. M. Forster Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English author, best known for his novels, particularly ''A Room with a View'' (1908), ''Howards End'' (1910), and ''A Passage to India'' (1924). He also wrote numerous short stori ...

, written in 1922 and published posthumously in '' The Life to Come (and Other Stories)'' in 1972. It was written into four chapters: Night, Evening, Day and Morning. In 2017, Surrey Opera gave the world premiere of ''The Life to Come'', an opera in two acts by British composer Louis Mander, with libretto by

Stephen Fry Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director and writer. He first came to prominence in the 1980s as one half of the comic double act Fry and Laurie, alongside Hugh Laurie, with the two starring ...

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1972 short stories Short stories by E. M. Forster 1922 short stories {{1920s-story-stub