Howards End

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出版者:Bantam Classics
作者:E.M. Forster
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頁數:288
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出版時間:1980-01-01
價格:42.00元
裝幀:Mass Market Paperback
isbn號碼:9780553212082
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Review:

With a new Introduction by James Ivory

Commentary by Virginia Woolf, Lionel Trilling,

Malcolm Bradbury, and Joseph Epstein

Howards End is a classic English novel . . . superb and wholly cherishable . . . one that admirers have no trouble reading over and over again," said Alfred Kazin.

First published in 1910, Howards End is the novel that earned E. M. Forster recognition as a major writer. At its heart lie two families--the wealthy and business-minded Wilcoxes and the cultured and idealistic Schlegels. When the beautiful and independent Helen Schlegel begins an impetuous affair with the ardent Paul Wilcox, a series of events is sparked--some very funny, some very tragic--that results in a dispute over who will inherit Howards End, the Wilcoxes' charming country home. As much about the clash between individual wills as the clash between the sexes and the classes, Howards End is a novel whose central tenet, "Only connect," remains a powerful prescription for modern life.

"Howards End is undoubtedly Forster's masterpiece; it develops to their full the themes and attitudes of [his] early books and throws back upon them a new and enhancing light," wrote the critic Lionel Trilling.

E. M. Forster (1879-1970) began writing stories while at Cambridge University. He is the author of Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910), and A Passage to India (1924). His novel Maurice, about a homosexual love affair, was published posthumously in 1971.

James Ivory is an American film director and is best known for the films he has made of E. M. Forster's novels, including Howards End, which enjoyed immense critical and popular success. He lives in New York City.

Howards End is a novel of ideas, not brute facts; in many respects it is an old kind of novel, playful in the eighteenth-century sense, full of tenderness toward favorite characters in the Dickens style, inventive in every structural touch but not a modernist work.

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Margaret Schlegel, engaged to the much older, widowed Henry Wilcox, meets her intended the morning after accepting his proposal and realizes that he is a man who has lived without introspection or true self-knowledge. As she contemplates the state of Wilcox's soul, her remedy for what ails him has become one of the most oft-quoted passages in literature:

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.

Like all of Forster's work, Howards End concerns itself with class, nationality, economic status, and how each of these affects personal relationships. It follows the intertwined fortunes of the Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, and the Wilcox family over the course of several years. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes, on the other hand, can't be bothered with the life of the mind or the heart, leading, instead, outer lives of "telegrams and anger" that foster "such virtues as neatness, decision, and obedience, virtues of the second rank, no doubt, but they have formed our civilization." Helen, after a brief flirtation with one of the Wilcox sons, has developed an antipathy for the family; Margaret, however, forms a brief but intense friendship with Mrs. Wilcox, which is cut short by the older woman's death. When her family discovers a scrap of paper requesting that Henry give their home, Howards End, to Margaret, it precipitates a spiritual crisis among them that will take years to resolve.

Forster's 1910 novel begins as a collection of seemingly unrelated events--Helen's impulsive engagement to Paul Wilcox; a chance meeting between the Schlegel sisters and an impoverished clerk named Leonard Bast at a concert; a casual conversation between the sisters and Henry Wilcox in London one night. But as it moves along, these disparate threads gradually knit into a tightly woven fabric of tragic misunderstandings, impulsive actions, and irreparable consequences, and, eventually, connection. Though set in the early years of the 20th century, Howards End seems even more suited to our own fragmented era of e-mails and anger. For readers living in such an age, the exhortation to "only connect" resonates ever more profoundly.

From AudioFile

An audiobook cannot be satisfactory unless the reader understands the text completely. In the case of a complex and subtle work like Howard's End , that's no small order. Edward Petherbridge does understand and makes all clear to the listener with unaffected authority. At the same time, he achieves such transparency that one forgets one is listening to a performance and simply experiences the story. His delivery is flawless. The story may not appeal to everyone, but the reading won't disappoint. J.N.

Book Dimension

Height (mm) 180         Width (mm) 110

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这次终于一口气读完了霍华德庄园,没有半途而废。这是一本非常简奥斯汀的小说,浓浓的英国古典风。优雅但是啰嗦,需要耐心。Margeret和Helen是一对有丰厚年金的姐妹。简奥斯汀笔下的Emma曾说过,有钱的大龄未婚女青年是不会寂寞的。她俩非常符合这个定义。每日艺术为伴,经常组...  

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看《霍华德庄园》,古典小说长篇累牍的描写风景,真让人不耐烦。心理描述我还能看得下去,但是风景描述实在是兴趣不能。但是在一百年,两百年以前,这些文字应该让人心旷神怡吧?连汽车都很新奇的时代,没有风光片,甚至没有电影的时代。那些文字唤起了人们对自然的感情。文学...  

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muddle, tangle, ropes of life, to live by proportion, to connect./the very soul of the world is economic, and that the lowest abyss is not the absence of love, but the absence of coin.

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我喜歡他敘述的調子。

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作者太秀瞭吧,很愛在書裏現身,還拿樂評書評充小說章節。有巴斯特先生的章節都寫的很好,其他人物縹緲如象徵物。情節走嚮宛如連續劇。connect with what?

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霍華德莊園

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看到最後幾個章節,一直壓抑著想哭的心情…對瑪格麗特情感經曆從最初的佩服到中間的輕衊再到最後的敬佩,對於海倫則一直處於憐憫的心態…我到瞭最後也不認為精神世界與物質世界完美的融閤瞭,而是精神世界的犧牲在一定程度上成全瞭物質世界的存在

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