Howards End - (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) by E M Forster (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>First published in 1910, <i>Howards End</i> is the novel that earned E. M. Forster recognition as a major writer. Soon to be a limited series on Starz. <p/>At its heart lie two families--the wealthy and business-minded Wilcoxes and the cultured and idealistic Schlegels. When the beautiful and independent Helen Schlegel begins an impetuous affair with the ardent Paul Wilcox, a series of events is sparked--some very funny, some very tragic--that results in a dispute over who will inherit Howards End, the Wilcoxes' charming country home. <p/>As much about the clash between individual wills as the clash between the sexes and the classes, <i>Howards End</i> is a novel whose central tenet, Only connect, remains a powerful prescription for modern life. <p/>Introduction by Alfred Kazan</p><p>(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Howards End is a novel of ideas, not brute facts; in many respects it is an old kind of novel, playful in the eighteenth-century sense, full of tenderness toward favorite characters in the Dickens style, inventive in every structural touch but not a modernist work.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"<b>Howards End</b> is a classic English novel . . . superb and wholly cherishable . . . one that admirers have no trouble reading over and over again," said Alfred Kazin. <p/>"<b>Howards End</b> is undoubtedly Forster's masterpiece; it develops to their full the themes and attitudes of [his] early books and throws back upon them a new and enhancing light," wrote the critic Lionel Trilling.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Edward Morgan Forster was born in London in 1879, attended Tonbridge School as a day boy, and went on to King's College, Cambridge, in 1897. With King's he had a lifelong connection and was elected to an Honorary Fellowship in 1946. He declared that his life as a whole had not been dramatic, and he was unfailingly modest about his achievements. Interviewed by the BBC on his eightieth birthday, he said: 'I have not written as much as I'd like to . . . I write for two reasons: partly to make money and partly to win the respect of people whom I respect . . . I had better add that I am quite sure I am not a great novelist.' Eminent critics and the general public have judged otherwise and in his obituary <i>The Times</i> called him 'one of the most esteemed English novelists of his time'.He wrote six novels, four of which appeared before the First World War, <i>Where Angels Fear to Tread </i>(1905), <i>The Longest Journey </i>(1907), <i>A Room with a View</i> (1908), and <i>Howard's End</i> (1910). An interval of fourteen years elapsed before he published <i>A Passage to India.</i> It won both the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. <i>Maurice</i>, his novel on a homosexual theme, finished in 1914, was published posthumously in 1971. He also published two volumes of short stories; two collections of essays; a critical work, <i>Aspects of the Novel; The Hill of Devi</i>, a fascinating record of two visits Forster made to the Indian State of Dewas Senior; two biographies; two books about Alexandria (where he worked for the Red Cross in the First World War); and, with Eric Crozier, the libretto for Britten's opera <i>Billy Budd</i>. He died in June 1970.
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