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Howards End

Howards End

ClassicsLiterary Fiction
Pages
329
Published
2007
Language
English

Synopsis

In early 20th-century England, the Wilcoxes, a wealthy family, and the Schlegels, intellectual and idealistic sisters, find their lives intertwined. A mysterious will leaves a country house, Howards End, to a man who never expected it, setting the stage for a clash of values and desires. This novel explores the complexities of social class, inheritance, and the search for connection.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

ComplexReflectiveEmotionalThought-Provoking

Genres

Classics Literary Fiction Historical Fiction Romance

About the author

E
E. M. Forster

Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH, was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy and also the attitudes towards gender and homosexuality in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect".

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