![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Title: Howards End
Author: E.M. Forster
Number of Pages: 271
Book Number/Goal: 2/12+
My Rating: 3/5
Howards End is generally regarded as Forster's greatest work. It explores the lives of three different families: the Schlegels, representing the more idealistic, intellectual part of the upper class; the Wilcoxes, representing a more stolid, conventional British upper-class ethics and society; and the Basts, representing the very bottom of the middle class. Forster uses their increasingly interwoven lives to explore questions of gender, class, money, and England itself.
The book was less boring than I thought it would be; there's actually quite a lot of scandal involved. It's not for the faint of heart, however; most chapters open with long descriptive passages, of houses or countryside or the state of England; definitely a difficult read. If, however, you're interested in this time period--the end of the Victorian era, just beginning to hint at the Roaring Twenties--or social/economic/gender questions, or books generally considered "classics," then this is a good choice.
Author: E.M. Forster
Number of Pages: 271
Book Number/Goal: 2/12+
My Rating: 3/5
Howards End is generally regarded as Forster's greatest work. It explores the lives of three different families: the Schlegels, representing the more idealistic, intellectual part of the upper class; the Wilcoxes, representing a more stolid, conventional British upper-class ethics and society; and the Basts, representing the very bottom of the middle class. Forster uses their increasingly interwoven lives to explore questions of gender, class, money, and England itself.
The book was less boring than I thought it would be; there's actually quite a lot of scandal involved. It's not for the faint of heart, however; most chapters open with long descriptive passages, of houses or countryside or the state of England; definitely a difficult read. If, however, you're interested in this time period--the end of the Victorian era, just beginning to hint at the Roaring Twenties--or social/economic/gender questions, or books generally considered "classics," then this is a good choice.
