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Howards End

E.M. Forster

Start date: February 1, 2019

Finish date: February 28, 2019

Discussion: New School Classics- 1915-2005

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Mar 15, 2019 Rachel rated it really liked it

Shelves: not-so-contemporary-fiction

Even though the central plot point of Margaret and Henry's marriage fundamentally makes no sense (despite Forster's best efforts to justify it), he is SO good at dissecting character and revealing hypocrisy that it's still an exceptional read. He's also still one of the best male feminist writers out there- that I've come across anyway- and this novel was published over 100 years ago. By allowing them to be single, without guardians, intelligent AND well-educated, he gives them both the freedom ...more

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Mar 01, 2013 Trisha rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: classics

I was really torn on how to rate this novel. Even though there were parts of the plot line that were very interesting, the writing style itself was sooooo slow. There were long passages that just rambled on and on, while major events would be breezed over in a simple sentence. I wanted to find out the importance of Howard's End, but I really had to fight my way through a lot of dull storytelling to get to a rather anti-climactic ending. ...more

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Dec 01, 2020 Dave rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Written in 1910, when England was the superpower of the world, the author explores the question who will inherit England. He does this through exploring three types of people, each of whom represent a possible answer. If an American author in 2010 sought out the same question what would the answer be? Would the American decline be as obvious as the English? Are we living through that now? What is important a life of the mind or a life of making money or pulling one self up to a higher station in ...more

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