This is of course an ancient task, ancient and and possibly eternal, but in the story of Howards End is essayed with rare insight and originality. To see abyss and plains mountain peaks cearly enough to recognize the common elements of all. To connect ricks of food and over-furnished dining-rooms with a hungry clerk who spends money for concrete and walks alone all night in the country. Connect what? Why the gulls and the stars and the the wych-elm and the tender cruelties of love itself with the garage, the motors, the nervous stupidity of Dolly and the middle-aged materialism of Henry Wilcox. "Only to connect!" says Margaret Wilcox, looking deep through the prosaic kindliness and competence of her band.
But Forster stands four square to the "winds and odors of life," presenting a rich complex of characters and reactions from which to evolve the more delicate nuances of his theme. Many adventurers into cryptic borderlands have seemed to detach themselves from other phases of thought and feeling as if unable to bear the touch of a too crass reality. And the main reason, one decides, is that the author of Howards End has realized the importance of relating even the most tentative conclusion about life as firmly as possible to the whole of life. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.Few modern fictionists have revealed so robust a sense of the elusive and intangible as one finds in this novel of E. Forster's finest work, Howards End brilliantly explores class warfare, conflict and the English character. As the Schlegel sisters try desperately to help the Basts and educate the close-minded Wilcoxes, the families are drawn together in love, lies and death.įrequently cited as E. 'Only connect.' is the idea at the heart of this book, a heartbreaking and provocative tale of three families at the beginning of the twentieth century: the rich Wilcoxes, the gentle, idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts. 'The poor cannot always reach those whom they want to love, and they can hardly ever escape from those whom they love no longer. The Penguin English Library Edition of Howards End by E.
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