Loved itHoward's end it's almost like I planned it how satisfying is that this deserves its place as a cloth bound classic.
Howards End (1910)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive 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
- ISBN:
- 9781778780318
- Length:
- 341 pages
Genres: romance, historical fiction, classics
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Loved itboth are stories about very different characters brought together by very peculiar circumstances who struggle to understand each other's world views and struggle to navigate each other's limited understandings
Loved itmy favorite two books by him are howard's end which tells the story of like several very different families and kind of different positions class wise in british society and how they interact with each other
Loved itmy favorite novel of his so if I haven't met all of its work but I will one day is how its end and I would love to include how essentially do you think it's a novel that everybody should read but it is just over my page limit
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