When I decided, earlier this week, to participate in the current round of the Classics Club Spin, Howards End seemed like a great choice to include… and although I won’t be reading it for this round, I was reminded (yet again) that I do intend to read this book eventually. I own it because it’s part of the two-in-one edition that includes Room With A View, which I actually have read. Hayley Atwell shines in Howards End, a beautiful, if borderline superficial, adaptation of a much-revered book. I’ve been meaning to read this book for years now. I’ve had a dusty old paperback edition on my shelves for over a decade! Thus as Forster sets in motion a chain of events that will entangle three different families, he brilliantly portrays their aspirations to personal and social harmony. When Mrs Wilcox dies, her family discovers that she wants to leave her country home, Howards End, to Margaret. As clear-eyed Margaret develops a friendship with Mrs Wilcox, the impetuous Helen brings into their midst a young bank clerk named Leonard Bast, who lives at the edge of poverty and ruin. Few works combine social comedy and political commentary with the skillful characterizations seen in the Schlegel sisters. See Amazon or Barnes & Noble for helpful customer reviews.) Over the years, Howards End has remained one of Forster's most beloved novels. What it’s about (synopsis via Goodreads) :Ī chance acquaintance brings together the preposterous bourgeois Wilcox family and the clever, cultured and idealistic Schlegel sisters. Book Reviews (Older works have few, if any, mainstream press reviews online.
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