Howards End
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the heart of Edwardian England, where class distinctions cut as sharply as a winter frost, Howards End chronicles the collision of three families — the idealistic Schlegel sisters, the pragmatic Wilcox industrialists, and the struggling clerk Leonard Bast — whose entangled fates illuminate the fault lines of a society on the brink of transformation. With the simple yet resonant epigraph Only connect, E. M. Forster constructs a richly layered narrative that argues for the reconciliation of the inner life of the mind with the outer world of commerce and ambition, weaving romance, tragedy, and social comedy into a tapestry of rare emotional power. Forster's prose is both precise and luminous, wielding irony with surgical elegance while investing each character with a profound and sympathetic humanity. Howards End stands as one of the supreme achievements of the English novel, a work that dissects the machinery of privilege and inheritance while holding out the radical, quietly revolutionary hope that human connection can transcend them. Who, ultimately, will inherit the house — and what does the answer reveal about the soul of a nation?
Author: E. M. Forster
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the heart of Edwardian England, where class distinctions cut as sharply as a winter frost, Howards End chronicles the collision of three families — the idealistic Schlegel sisters, the pragmatic Wilcox industrialists, and the struggling clerk Leonard Bast — whose entangled fates illuminate the fault lines of a society on the brink of transformation. With the simple yet resonant epigraph Only connect, E. M. Forster constructs a richly layered narrative that argues for the reconciliation of the inner life of the mind with the outer world of commerce and ambition, weaving romance, tragedy, and social comedy into a tapestry of rare emotional power. Forster's prose is both precise and luminous, wielding irony with surgical elegance while investing each character with a profound and sympathetic humanity. Howards End stands as one of the supreme achievements of the English novel, a work that dissects the machinery of privilege and inheritance while holding out the radical, quietly revolutionary hope that human connection can transcend them. Who, ultimately, will inherit the house — and what does the answer reveal about the soul of a nation?