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Howards End
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Jessica
Apr 20, 2017 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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I, once again, had not seen the movie prior to reading this and so approached this book with no idea what it was going to be other than knowing that Forster is a "Bloomsbury" member. Based on the synopsis/cover copy, I assumed the story would be along the lines of Woolf or Joyce. Both of these things led me to believe it was going to be pretty stuffed shirt.

Instead it turns out to be a comic story that makes a farce of the social class structure and gender relationships of early 1900s England.
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