Considered by many to be E. M. Forster ’s greatest novel, Howards End is a beautifully subtle tale of two very different families brought together by an unusual event. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes are practical and materialistic, leading lives of “telegrams and anger.” When the elder Mrs. Wilcox dies and her family discovers she has left their country home—Howards End—to one of the Schlegel sisters, a crisis between the two families is precipitated that takes years to resolve. Written in 1910, Howards End is a symbolic exploration of the social, economic, and intellectual forces at work in England in the years preceding World War I, a time when vast social changes were occurring. In the Schlegels and the Wilcoxes, Forster perfectly embodies the competing idealism and materialism of the upper classes, while the conflict over the ownership of Howards End represents the struggle for possession of the country’s future. As critic Lionel Trilling once noted, the novel asks, “Who shall inherit England?”
Forster refuses to take sides in this conflict. Instead he poses one of the book’s central questions: In a changing modern society, what should be the relation between the inner and outer life, between the world of the intellect and the world of business? Can they ever, as Forster urges, “only connect”?
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怎么说呢，这是我第一次这么艰难地读完一部英国小说，几度放弃几度重新捡起，好在进入到全书的三分之二部分，才出现了跌宕起伏的情节，让人有了读下去的欲望。 我估计，福斯特一直在睡觉，到后半部分才醒来。
评分 评分 评分因为写论文的原因，好容易登到一个中文版，好用来引用。本来以为人民文学出版社和苏福忠的名字能保证质量，结果发现很差，前言里面错误百出，基本的作者信息和作品信息都没有搞清楚。更糟的是名字都写错了，写成howard end. 对于国内一流出版社，“资深”编辑，搞出这种不负责...
评分个人觉得福斯特不是一个好的小说家，第一次读被长篇累牍的风景描写和不着边际的哲学语言弄得昏昏欲睡，几次释卷，又几次重拾。但是耐心细细读了几遍后，发现这本《霍华德庄园》可以称得上精彩。 小说情节其实一点都不乏味：妹妹和富家二少爷私定终生，但是后来又解除了婚约；...
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