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Howards End

E. M. Forster

  • 342 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 1910
  • 498 editions
  • Free to read
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1 About this book

Howards End is a novel by E. M. Forster about social conventions, codes of conduct and relationships in turn-of-the-century England. A strong-willed and intelligent woman refuses to allow the pretensions of her husband's smug English family to ruin her life. Howards End is considered by some to be Forster's masterpiece.

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  • Relationships
  • Classics
  • Historical fiction
  • Domestic fiction
  • Inheritance and succession
  • Sisters
  • Country homes
  • Social classes

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3 About E. M. Forster

1879–1970

Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English author. He is best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). He also wrote numerous short stories, essays, speeches and broadcasts, as well as biographies and pageant plays. His short story "The Machine Stops" (1909) is often viewed as the beginning of technological dystopian fiction.

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