love fails. The celestial omnibus will not stop at Howards End again. [1] Stephen Land. Challenge and Conventionality in the Fiction of E.M. Forster. New York: AMS Press, 1990 (165). Hereafter cited parenthetically. [2] James McConkey. The Novels of E.M. Forster. New York: Cornell University Press, 1957 (79). [3] E.M. Forster. Howards End. New York: Penguin, 1986 (154). Hereafter cited parenthetically. [4] E.M. Forster. "The Celestial Omnibus". The Collected
different things and learn new things and without traveling people would see and learn nothing new. The stories “The Mysterious Stranger” by Mark Twain, and “The Celestial Omnibus” by E.M Forster have different themes. “The Mysterious Stranger” has the theme, open mindedness and fear can lead to the escape of reality.“The Celestial Omnibus” has the theme imagination and travel lead to escaping reality. With those different themes, “The Mysterious Stranger” and “The