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Howards EndHowards End
Three families, the cultured Schlegels, the businesslike Wilcoxes, and the struggling clerk Leonard Bast, are drawn together and torn apart around a beloved country house and the question of what England is for. Forster’s great novel of connection.
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A wise, humane, beautifully balanced novel about class, money, and the effort to truly understand one another. “Only connect” has rarely been argued more movingly.
SettingEngland, 1900s
Edwardian England on the cusp of change, where old landed values, new commercial wealth, and the anxious lower-middle class jostled over the country’s soul.