Howard's End, by E. M. Forster

It was interesting to reread this novel after Forster’s Aspects of the Novel. Although it’s been quite a few years since I last read it, the story remains vivid in my memory, partly because of the 1992 Merchant-Ivory film starring Emma Thomson, Vanessa Redgrave, and Anthony Hopkins.

Sisters Margaret and Helen Schlegel love literature and music and good conversation, all readily availble in pre-World War I London where they live with their young brother, Tibby. Secure in the funds left to them...