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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《霍华德庄园》的大陆译本似乎只有一个，译者为苏福忠，是人民文学出版社的老编辑、翻译家，然而我感觉中译文字不是那么通顺易读，最后是在英文版的“辅助”下，看完了《霍华德庄园》。 和E.M.福斯特的其他文学作品一样，这部小说的故事情节其实很简单的，唯有层层叠叠的细节与...
評分 評分我琢磨了一下标题前面那个叹词，一开始，冲出脑门的是“唉…”，可这未免过于悲观；而后，是“哦…”，又过于欣喜。还是“嗯…”来得平实。海伦和玛格丽特是故事中的两位主人公，一对亲姐妹——身上流着日耳曼人血液的英国人，大龄的，知识女青年。是的，不是当今流行的“文艺...
評分我琢磨了一下标题前面那个叹词，一开始，冲出脑门的是“唉…”，可这未免过于悲观；而后，是“哦…”，又过于欣喜。还是“嗯…”来得平实。海伦和玛格丽特是故事中的两位主人公，一对亲姐妹——身上流着日耳曼人血液的英国人，大龄的，知识女青年。是的，不是当今流行的“文艺...
評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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