Howards End: With an introduction by David Nicholls, bestselling author of You Are Here
(Hardback)
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Published: 29th January 1993
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Published: 1st January 1992
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Published: 1st January 2011
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Published: 24th June 2025
Publishing Details
Howards End: With an introduction by David Nicholls, bestselling author of You Are Here
By (Author) E M Forster
Hodder & Stoughton
Sceptre
24th June 2025
27th March 2025
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
Narrative theme: Coming of age
Narrative theme: Love and relationships
Physical Properties
Hardback
416
Width 138mm, Height 222mm
Description
'A social comedy, often delightful . . . with energy, curiosity and wit'
DAVID NICHOLLS 'Forster's masterpiece'THE TIMES'The present flowed by them like a stream. The tree rustled. It had made music before they were born, and would continue after their deaths, but its song was of the moment.'Howards End, the country home of the Wilcoxes, overlooks a fertile garden and a meadow beyond, the boundary marked by a majestic wych-elm tree. Great red poppies bloom, cherry and plum trees flower and the scent of cut hay perfumes the air.In the spring of 1905, within those vine-covered walls, a brief romance between Helen Schlegel and Paul Wilcox brings the pragmatic, bourgeois Wilcoxes into conflict with the liberal, idealistic Schlegels. When Helen befriends Leonard Bast, a young bank clerk on the edge of ruin, a chain of events is set in motion that brings the Schlegel, Wilcox and Bast families together irrevocably, for better or for worse, and leads back, in the end, to where it all began, Howards End.Reviews
Forster's masterpiece * The Times *
It erupts in your head and keeps on erupting long after you've read it -- Patrick Gale, author of MOTHER'S BOY
A social comedy, often delightful . . . with energy, curiosity and wit -- David Nicholls
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 -- Lionel Trilling
Author Bio
Edward Morgan Forster was born in London in 1879, attended Tonbridge School and went on to King's College, Cambridge in 1897, where he retained a lifelong connection and was elected to an Honorary Fellowship in 1946.
He died in June 1970.