Howards End
by E. M. Forster (1879–1970)
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- 7 hours to read
- 44 chapters
- Reading level: 6th grade
"Howards End" by E. M. Forster is a novel published in 1910. Three families collide in turn-of-the-century England: the wealthy capitalist Wilcoxes, the intellectual Schlegel sisters, and the struggling working-class Basts. When idealistic Margaret Schlegel befriends the Wilcox matriarch, a deathbed wish concerning the country house Howards End sets off a chain of events involving concealed inheritances, broken engagements, financial ruin, and forbidden affairs. Their intertwined fates will ultimately determine who inherits England's social future.
- Inheritance and succession
- England
- Sisters
- Domestic fiction
- Country homes
- Illegitimate children
- Social classes
- Remarried people
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Chapter I
One may as well begin with Helen’s letters to her sister.
“Howards End,
“Tuesday.
“Dearest Meg,
“It isn’t going to be what we expected. It is old and little, and altogether delightful—red brick. We can scarcely pack in as it is, and the dear knows what will happen when Paul (younger son) arrives to-morrow. From hall you go right or left into dining-room or drawing-room. Hall itself is practically a room. You open another door in it, and there are the stairs going up in a sort of tunnel to the first-floor. Three bed-rooms in a row there, and three attics in a row above. That isn’t all the house really, but it’s all that one notices—nine windows as you look up from the front garden.
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This free edition of Howards End by E. M. Forster comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #2946, released 2001-12-01. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: Novels, British Literature.
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