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Also download the Kindle cover thumbnail to see the cover in your Kindle’s library. Forster weaves these threads expertly against the backdrop of London city life and the cozy family cottage of Howards End, the ultimate centerpiece in these three families’ lives.Ĭompatible epub — All devices and apps except Kindles and Kobos.Īzw3 — Kindle devices and apps. Capitalism, a still-new philosophy of life, is juxtaposed against humanism and the arts as the families try to do what they each think is the right thing. The interplay between the three families becomes a complex reflection on social codes and class difference in England: how class can lock lives in place, and how even the well-to-do are not immune from becoming ossified in their station thanks to the seemingly-unbreakable social conventions of the age.

Helen, a rash and fiery idealist, takes him up as a pet project, oblivious to the deep cultural gulf between Bast and themselves as she tries her best to educate him in matters of art and literature and lift him out of his class.

Bast is proud and ambitious, but clearly impoverished and lacking gentility. As their families begin butting heads in London, Helen, the younger Schlegel sister, runs in to Leonard Bast while at the opera. They befriend the Wilcoxes while on a trip abroad, and the lonely Wilcox matriarch and Margaret Schlegel, the strong-willed elder sister, strike up a friendship. The Schlegel siblings are sharp, intelligent, and idealistic, and they pursue culture and art with an enthusiasm reminiscent of the Bloomsbury group. The plot revolves around three families in Edwardian England: the Schlegels, a trio of half-German, middle-class siblings who to poor people seem rich, but to rich people seem poor the Wilcoxes, a large, wealthy family of businessmen and the Basts, a lower class young couple struggling to keep up appearances. Howards End, published in 1910, is considered by many to be Forster’s masterpiece. „– 17 in the BBC’s 100 Greatest British Novels (2015) „– 38 in the Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels Standard Ebooksġ11,744 words (6 hours 47 minutes) with a reading ease of 75.91 (fairly easy) Forster - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover.