Howards End: E.M. Forster

Forster, E M

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1857150252 ISBN 13: 9781857150254

Verlag: Random House Uk, 1992

Millennium library edition with library markings, shelf wear to dust jacket, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

Reseña del editor:

The story of a house and two sisters, Howards End is also a subtle meditation on national, sexual and social identities. Half German by birth and middle-class English by upbringing, Helen and Margaret Schlegel struggle to come to terms with the problems of their inheritance in Edwardian England. If the contrasting temperaments of the heroines often recall Sense and Sensibility, the comparison with Jane Austen is fully justified by the power of Forster’s irony and the brilliance of his wit.

Reseña del editor:

All of the relationships this book delineates, even the happy ones, are infused with a kind of tension that had never previously been evoked in English literature, a tension that eventually crosses over into violence. It is a novel of manners, written in the last years of the Edwardian era.