Howards End (英语)

基本信息

出版社: Bantam Classics; 1985-10-01

简装: 288页

语种： 英语

ISBN: 0553212087

条形码: 9780553212082

商品尺寸: 10.7 x 2.1 x 17.4 cm

商品重量: 5 g

ASIN: 0553212087

内容简介

What makes this masterpiece apure delight for contemporary readers is its vibrant portrait oflife in Edwardian England, and the wonderful characters who inhabitthe charming old country house in Hertfordshire called Howards End.This cozy house becomes the object of an inheritance disputebetween the upright conservative Wilcox family and the Schlegelsisters, Margaret and Helen, sensitive and intuitive women loved bymen willing to leap wide social barriers to fulfill their ardor.Through romantic entanglements, disappearing wills, and suddentragedy, the conflict over the house emerges as a symbolic strugglefor England’s future. Rich with the tradition, spirit, and witdistinctively English,  HowardsEnd is a remarkable novel of rare insight andunderstanding. As in his celebrated  A Passage to India,E. M. Forster brings to vivid life a country and an era through thedestinies of his unforgettable characters.