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<div>Considered by many to be E. M. Forster’s greatest novel, Howards End is a beautifully subtle tale of two very different families brought together by an unusual event. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes are practical and materialistic, leading lives of “telegrams and anger.” When the elder Mrs. Wilcox dies and her family discovers she has left their country home—Howards End—to one of the Schlegel sisters, a crisis between the two families is precipitated that takes years to resolve. Written in 1910, Howards End is a symbolic exploration of the social, economic, and intellectual forces at work in England in the years preceding World War I, a time when vast social changes were occurring. In the Schlegels and the Wilcoxes, Forster perfectly embodies the competing idealism and materialism of the upper classes, while the conflict over the ownership of Howards End represents the struggle for possession of the country’s future. As critic Lionel Trilling once noted, the novel asks, “Who shall inherit England?” Forster refuses to take sides in this conflict. Instead he poses one of the book’s central questions: In a changing modern society, what should be the relation between the inner and outer life, between the world of the intellect and the world of business? Can they ever, as Forster urges, “only connect”? </div>

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Most of the criticism seems to be that the readers felt that this book at nothing to do with them. They weren't familiar with the places in England referenced in the book. It was too English. I...more...]]> 3 5 false false Sun Apr 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 16 14:23:01 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 27 19:43:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 7 false false Thu May 15 21:30:26 -0700 2008 Thu May 15 21:31:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 00:10:22 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 23 16:16:51 -0700 2008
It might sound odd but one of the things I love...more...]]> 3 2 false true Sun Apr 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 19 18:44:20 -0700 2008 Sat May 09 23:12:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sat Sep 22 18:51:18 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 24 05:49:27 -0700 2007
Young and impressionable at the age of 18, I fell in love with an older man who introduced me to E.M. Forster. Being a busy college student, I never gave myself the time to read his works,...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 17 18:53:45 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 17 19:04:34 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Feb 17 01:00:16 -0800 2007 Fri Oct 26 02:21:14 -0700 2007 هرتفوردشایر کجاست و خانه ی هوارد، که فارستر خود زمانی در آن �...more...]]> 5 3 false false Sun Nov 02 17:22:45 -0800 2008 Wed Oct 29 10:28:12 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 02 17:22:45 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false true Mon May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 31 10:56:56 -0800 2008 Mon May 05 15:14:49 -0700 2008
There were some strikingly-beautiful bouts of prose in here, but overall I was not very excited about this book. I think Forster may have been trying to be sympathetic to women--there was a weird sentence about how nobody realizes how painful childbirth is--but the a...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jan 19 20:27:44 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 20:28:07 -0800 2009
First and foremost, I see this book as a commentary on the differences between the classes in turn of the century...more...]]> 0 0 false true Sat Dec 13 16:59:52 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 22:17:39 -0800 2008
Charles had just been scolding his Dolly. She deserved the scolding, and had bent before it, but her head, though bloody, was unsubdued, and her chirrupings began to mingle with his retreating thunder.

"You've woken the baby. I knew you would. (Rum-ti-foo,...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Apr 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 27 16:51:03 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 17:35:33 -0700 2009 HEADLINE: E.M. Forster to conduct a séance. Want to chat with your dead mother?

In Margaret Schlegel E.M. Forster has created a great hero, as her wild and free wheeling sister, Helen, observes late in this novel. These two along with their brother, the hilariously indolent Tibby, ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon May 04 17:30:29 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 10:39:11 -0700 2009 1 On Beauty for a while, but thought I should read Howards End first - because I know Smith's 2005 novel was inspired in part by Forster's classic novel. I'm glad I did! It's hard to believe that Howards End was written in 1910, it felt surprisingly relevant t...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat May 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 07:35:41 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 07:35:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Feb 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 18:08:43 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 16:14:23 -0800 2009 Howard's End, my experience with Forster has been limited to marvel that is Merchant-Ivory. This book was very good, but I didn't really fall in love with it. I found the Schlegels a bit cold and distant, even though they were, with the exception of Tibby, endearing and interestin...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 10:13:47 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 10:26:38 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 16:40:27 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 02:14:05 -0700 2009
And Leonard is really dull. If a chapter started with him, I found myself groaning.

I gather that no-one thinks the marriage is plausible, you have to just go with it.

On the edition, I think that endnotes should be footn...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 12 19:24:34 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 10:22:45 -0700 2009
The characters and story twists are great, and EM Forster's ability to break the fourth wall at times and chat with you, the reader, is very charming....more...]]> 4 2 false false Fri May 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 13:14:58 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 10:54:23 -0700 2009 more...]]>