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No one could have predicted the
catastrophic outcome of Helen
Schlegel's first visit to Howards End.
She falls in love with the refreshing Wilcox family,
which cares not at all for LLiterature or Art, and
impetuously becomes engaged to Paul Wilcox. Whole worlds
- Schlegel culture and Wilcox commerce, liberalism and imperialism, green
fields and motor cars, conversation and action - come together and collide
in E. M. Forster's richly suggestive novel. Set in upper-middle-class
Edwardian England, it none the less explores lives that feel familiar in their
tragic inability to 'connect ... the prose and the passion"
The clash of modern culture and modern materialism has seldom found a
more vivid interpreter... surprise is the essence of his method'-Spectator