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A Room with a View and Howards End
Contributor(s): Forster, E. M. (Author), Demott, Benjamin (Introduction by)

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ISBN: 0451521412     ISBN-13: 9780451521415
Publisher: Signet Book
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Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 1986
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical - General
Dewey: FIC
Age Level: 18-UP
Grade Level: 13-UP
Series: Signet Classics
Physical Information: 1.22" H x 4.2" W x 6.89" L (0.48 lbs) 449 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
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Wit and intelligence are the hallmarks of these two probing portraits of the English character written by E.M. Forster. Both are stories of extreme contrasts--in values, social class and cultural perspectives. Romantic relationships lead to conventional happiness in the delightful social comedy A Room with a View, and to unexpected scandal in the richer, deeply moving novel Howards End.

Howards End, which rivals A Passage to India as Forster's greatest work, makes a country house in Hertfordshire the center and the symbol for what Lionel Trilling called a class war about who would inherit England. Commerce clashes with culture, greed with gentility.

A Room with a View brings home the stuffiness of upper-middle-class Edwardian society in a tremendously funny comedy that pairs a well-bred young lady with a lusty railway clerk and satirizes both the clergy and the English notion of respectability.

Quintessentially British, these two novels have become twentieth-century classics. With an introduction and bibliography by Benjamin DeMott.

 
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