num_pages: 373
description: What makes this masterpiece a pure delight for contemporary readers is its clear, vibrant portrait of life in Edwardian England, and the wonderful characters who inhabit the charming old country house in Hertfordshire called Howards End. This cozy house becomes the object of an inheritance dispute between the upright conservative Wilcox family and the Schlegel sisters, Helen and Margaret, sensitive and intuitive women loved by men willing to leap wide social barriers to fulfill their ardor. Through romantic entanglements, disappearing wills and sudden tragedy, the conflict over the house emerges as a symbolic struggle for England's very future. Rich with the tradition, spirit and wit belonging only to the English, HOWARDS END is a remarkable novel of rare insight and understanding. As in his celebrated A PASSAGE TO INDIA, E. M. Forster brings to vivid life a country and an era trough the destinies of his characters. Say Stephen Spender: "He held up to his time a mirror which reflects in his art a picture of civilized values."
language: English
title: Howards End
titlecomplete: Howards End
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Audiobook, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance, British Literature
ratings_count: 87842
publisher: Bantam Books