7/4/2023 0 Comments Howards end review bookYoung, confident women - and with strong opinions - they are idealists who want for nothing. The well-educated and well-off Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, are half-German and live in London, where they can pursue their interests in the arts. This is mirrored in the three different families which form the core of the story. Set during the Edwardian era, it’s a tale about the clash between town and country, and the growing gap between the rich and the poor. Even Forster himself claimed it was his best book (he wrote six novels, and this was his fourth). Forster’s Howards End is often cited as a masterpiece of 20th-century literary fiction. Fiction – paperback Penguin Classics 302 pages 2000.įirst published in 1910, E.M.
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