At its heart lie two families-the wealthy and business-minded Wilcoxes and the cultured and idealistic Schlegels. First published in 1910, Howards End is the novel that earned E. one that admirers have no trouble reading over and over again,' said Alfred Kazin. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Ĭommentary by Virginia Woolf, Lionel Trilling, Malcolm Bradbury, and Joseph Epstein ' Howards End is a classic English novel. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. David Lodge's introduction provides an absorbing and eloquent overture to the 1910 novel that established Forster's reputation as an important writer, and that he himself later referred to as 'my best novel.' This edition also contains a note on the text, suggestions for further reading, and explanatory notes. 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. 'Only connect.' A chance acquaintance brings together the preposterous bourgeois Wilcox family and the clever, cultured and idealistic Schlegel sisters. Forster's meticulously observed drama of class warfare exploring the conflict inherent within English society-the inspiration for the award-winning two-part play The Inheritance, now on Broadway

About the Book First published in Great Britain by Edward Arnold 1910.īook Synopsis E.

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