{"_id":"69bcd5c675d56fcc7b0eabf3","title":"A Story of a Panic","author":"E. M. Forster","code":"a-story-of-a-panic","publish_year":1904,"publish_source":"The Albany Review","publish_edition":"Vol. 3","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/sim_albany-review_june-september-1904_3_9-12/mode/2up","words":8198,"image":"swamp.jpg","image_alt":"Trees. Graphite filter","genres":["literary","fantasy"],"description":"After becoming acquaintances at an Italian hotel in the woods, a group of English people go for a hike and come across a strange disturbance in nature that leaves a young boy permanently changed.","blurb":"At any other time it would have been ludicrous, for here was a boy, with no sense of beauty and a puerile command of words, attempting to tackle themes which the greatest poets have found almost beyond their power. Eustace Robinson, aged fourteen, was standing in his nightshirt saluting, praising, and blessing, the great forces and manifestations of Nature.","rating":3,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}