Howard's End

by E. M. Forster

Overview

The Never-Ending Conflict Between the Old Ways and the New Ways

“The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.” - E.M. Forster, Howards End

Howards End is an estate with a rich history and cultural heritage cherished by the Wilcoxes, a rich family with traditional ideas. However, the half-German Schlegeles – the new aristocracy – are not that impressed, yet Ruth Wilcox sees Margaret Schlegel as the ideal owner. That’s why on deathbed, Ruth leaves the house to Margaret in written note. The note is burnt by the husband Henry who grows fonder of Margaret with each passing day. Is Margaret bound to Howards End? And what does all of this have to do with the struggling Basts?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781681952062
Publisher:	Xist Publishing
Publication date:	09/04/2015
Series:	Xist Classics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	271
File size:	516 KB

About the Author

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Date of Birth:

January 1, 1879

Date of Death:

June 7, 1970

Place of Birth:

London

Place of Death:

Coventry, England

Education:

B. A. in classics, King's College, Cambridge, 1900; B. A. in history, 1901; M.A., 1910

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

About Longman Cultural Editions

About This Edition

Introduction

Table of Dates

Howards End (1910)

Afterword

Contexts

Money

Currency

Distribution of Wealth

Incomes

Expenses

Early Reviews of Howards End

Anonymous, from the Times Literary Supplement (October 1910)

Anonymous, from the Standard (October 1910)

R. A. Scott-James, from the Daily News (November 1910)

Arnold Bennett, from The New Age (January 1911)

Leonard’s Reading

John Ruskin, from The Stones of Venice (1851—53)

George Meredith, from The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859)

Robert Louis Stevenson, from Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

from “Virginibus Puerisque”

from “Walking Tours”

Richard Jefferies, from The Story of My Heart (1883)

The Condition of England

Edward Carpenter, from Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure (1889)

Jack London, from The People of the Abyss (1903)

G. Lowes Dickinson, from A Modern Symposium (1905)

C. F. G. Masterman, from The Condition of England (1908)

Elizabeth Robins, from The Convert (1907)

England and Germany

E. E. Williams, from “Made in Germany” (1896)

Elizabeth von Arnim, from Elizabeth and Her German Garden (1898)

Rudyard Kipling, “The Rowers” (1902)

West Africa and Imperialism

Mary Kingsley, from West African Studies (1899)

E. D. Morel, from Affairs of West Africa (1902)

J. A. Hobson,from Imperialism (1902)

Leonard Woolf, from Empire and Commerce in Africa (1920)

Culture and Bloomsbury

Matthew Arnold, from Culture and Anarchy (1882)

G. E. Moore, from Principia Ethica (1903)

Leonard Woolf, from The Wise Virgins (1914)

Virginia Woolf, from The Voyage Out (1915)

Works Cited in This Edition

Further Reading

E. M. Forster’s Writings

Biographical Studies

Critical Studies