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版次：1
页数：373
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印刷时间：1985年10月01日
开本：32开
纸张：胶版纸
包装：平装
是否套装：否
国际标准书号ISBN：9780553212082

作者:E.M. Forster　著出版社:Random House US出版时间:1985年10月

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　　Review:
　　With a new Introduction by James Ivory
　　Commentary by Virginia Woolf, Lionel Trilling,
　　Malcolm Bradbury, and Joseph Epstein
　　Howards End is a classic English novel . . . superb and whollycherishable . . . one that admirers have no trouble reading overand over again," said Alfred Kazin.

Review: 
　　With a new Introduction by James Ivory 
　　Commentary by Virginia Woolf, Lionel Trilling, 
　　Malcolm Bradbury, and Joseph Epstein 
　　Howards End is a classic English novel . . . superb and wholly
cherishable . . . one that admirers have no trouble reading over
and over again," said Alfred Kazin. 
　　First published in 1910, Howards End is the novel that earned E.
M. Forster recognition as a major writer. At its heart lie two
families--the wealthy and business-minded Wilcoxes and the cultured
and idealistic Schlegels. When the beautiful and independent Helen
Schlegel begins an impetuous affair with the ardent Paul Wilcox, a
series of events is sparked--some very funny, some very
tragic--that results in a dispute over who will inherit Howards
End, the Wilcoxes' charming country home. As much about the clash
between individual wills as the clash between the sexes and the
classes, Howards End is a novel whose central tenet, "Only
connect," remains a powerful pre*ion for modern life. 
　　"Howards End is undoubtedly Forster's masterpiece; it develops to
their full the themes and attitudes of [his] early books and throws
back upon them a new and enhancing light," wrote the critic Lionel
Trilling. 
　　E. M. Forster (1879-1970) began writing stories while at
Cambridge University. He is the author of Where Angels Fear to
Tread (1905), A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910), and A
Passage to India (1924). His novel Maurice, about a homosexual love
affair, was published posthumously in 1971. 
　　James Ivory is an American film director and is best known for
the films he has made of E. M. Forster's novels, including Howards
End, which enjoyed immense critical and popular success. He lives
in New York City. 
　　Howards End is a novel of ideas, not brute facts; in many
respects it is an old kind of novel, playful in the
eighteenth-century sense, full of tenderness toward favorite
characters in the Dickens style, inventive in every structural
touch but not a modernist work. 
　　Amazon.com 
　　Margaret Schlegel, engaged to the much older, widowed Henry
Wilcox, meets her intended the morning after accepting his proposal
and realizes that he is a man who has lived without introspection
or true self-knowledge. As she contemplates the state of Wilcox's
soul, her remedy for what ails him has become one of the most
oft-quoted passages in literature: 
　　Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the
prose and the passion and both will be exalted, and human love will
be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. 
　　Like all of Forster's work, Howards End concerns itself with
class, nationality, economic status, and how each of these affects
personal relationships. It follows the intertwined fortunes of the
Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, and the Wilcox family over
the course of several years. The Schlegels are intellectuals,
devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes, on the other hand,
can't be bothered with the life of the mind or the heart, leading,
instead, outer lives of "telegrams and anger" that foster "such
virtues as neatness, decision, and obedience, virtues of the second
rank, no doubt, but they have formed our civilization." Helen,
after a brief flirtation with one of the Wilcox sons, has developed
an antipathy for the family; Margaret, however, forms a brief but
intense friendship with Mrs. Wilcox, which is cut short by the
older woman's death. When her family discovers a scrap of paper
requesting that Henry give their home, Howards End, to Margaret, it
precipitates a spiritual crisis among them that will take years to
resolve. 
　　Forster's 1910 novel begins as a collection of seemingly
unrelated events--Helen's impulsive engagement to Paul Wilcox; a
chance meeting between the Schlegel sisters and an impoverished
clerk named Leonard Bast at a concert; a casual conversation
between the sisters and Henry Wilcox in London one night. But as it
moves along, these disparate threads gradually knit into a tightly
woven fabric of tragic misunderstandings, impulsive actions, and
irreparable consequences, and, eventually, connection. Though set
in the early years of the 20th century, Howards End seems even more
suited to our own fragmented era of e-mails and anger. For readers
living in such an age, the exhortation to "only connect" resonates
ever more profoundly. 
　　From AudioFile 
　　An audiobook cannot be satisfactory unless the reader understands
the text completely. In the case of a complex and subtle work like
Howard's End , that's no small order. Edward Petherbridge does
understand and makes all clear to the listener with unaffected
authority. At the same time, he achieves such transparency that one
forgets one is listening to a performance and simply experiences
the story. His delivery is flawless. The story may not appeal to
everyone, but the reading won't disappoint. J.N. 
　　Book Dimension 
　　Height (mm) 180　Width (mm) 110

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　　Spotlight Reviews
　　1.One of the Best!, September 15, 2002
　　Reviewer: Lleu Christopher (Hudson Valley, NY)

Spotlight Reviews 
　　1.One of the Best!, September 15, 2002 
　　Reviewer: Lleu Christopher (Hudson Valley, NY) 
　　I have read Howard's End two or three times and listened to it
once on tape and it remains one of my favorite novels. Many people
were introduced to it by the film, which, good though it was, does
not begin to capture the subtle wisdom Forster put into this book.
Howard's End can be seen as a quaint period piece about British
culture in the early Twentieth Century. On another level, however,
it's a brilliant exploration of the human soul. In the Schlegels
and the Wilcoxes, Forster has created the perfect embodiment of the
eternal conflict between reason and passion. These two families,
destined to be united by the marriage of Margaret Schlegel to Henry
Wilcox, represent two seemingly irreconcilable aspects of humanity.
The Schlegels are artistic, intellectual and impractical; the
Wilcoxes materialistic and unapologetically bourgeois. Margaret and
Henry have their differences, but it is their relatives who display
the more extreme family traits. Margaret's sister Helen is a
classic bohemian; Henry's son Charles is a humorless and intolerant
banker. As the novel unfolds, the two families are forced to
confront each other and decide whether to ultimately part company
or compromise. What is most impressive to me about the novel is the
naturalness and grace with which the story unfolds. When an author
uses characters to embody universal qualities, it is quite a
challenge to make the people and story real and not merely symbols.
Howard's End succeeds brilliantly as both a thoroughly engaging
novel and a rather profound metaphysical inquiry. 
　　2.A clash between idealism and practicality., July 1, 2000 
　　Reviewer: Leonard L. Wilson (Springfield, OH USA) 
　　The Schlegel sisters are interested in the arts and in the more
idealistic liberal social movements of their early 20th century
world. The Wilcoxes are practical and materialistic. There seems to
be little in common between the two families, but not even a highly
embarrassing early amorous encounter can keep them apart. Poor
Leonard Bast is as idealistic as the Schlegels, but encumbered by
an unloved wife with a shady past, he has not their financial means
to avoid dealing with the practicalities of life. Caught between
the two factions, he eventually is crushed. Only Margaret Schlegel
is finally strong enough to bridge the gap between the practical
and the ideal by exerting her benevolent humanity, her passionate
and yet controlled determination that people must "connect."HOWARDS
END is a minor masterpiece, capturing perfectly the conflict
between rigid Victorian values and the more free and open changes
in the turbulent years before World War I. Forster handles his
characters with great sensitivity and sympathy, yet with a subtle
and skillful irony. The novel is not intended for rapid reading,
but there is a felicity of expression that is an ample reward for
careful perusal. Less fastidious than Henry James, not quite the
equal of Trollope in characterization, a more subtle stylist than
William Dean Howells, Forster combines some of the best elements of
all three of these social chroniclers in an important work that is
both highly personal and universal in scope. 
　　Customer Reviews 
　　1.A true classic, 29 Dec 2005 
　　Reviewer: Kurt Messick "FrKurt Messick" (London, SW1) 
　　The characters are rich and compelling, leading the reader to
have real compassion for even the more uncompassionate sorts. It is
an excellent way to spend rainy afternoons with a cat on one's lap
and a cup of English tea by one's side. 
　　The primary action focusses upon families ' first the Schlegels,
genteel without being titled or particularly monied, but far from
poor; second, the Wilcoxes, successful financial class, largely
without too much background, and a few additional characters such
as Leonard Bast and his wife, struggling working-class characters
who, through a misappropriated umbrella, become entangled in and
damaged by the affairs of the Schlegels and Wilcoxes. 
　　The action throughout much of the novel consists of a study of
manners and morals. The elder Schlegel daughter becomes friendly
with the dying Mrs. Wilcox, and they become friends of a sort.
After the death of Mrs. Wilcox, Margaret remains in contact with
the Wilcoxes, eventually being courted by the widower Wilcox. The
younger Schlegel daughter, Helen, is much more of a rebel,
rejecting the implicit superiority of convention while perfectly
happy to revel in the benefits of her station in life. Her sister
Margaret lives a bit precariously through Helen (and, indeed, Mrs.
Wilcox lives precariously through Margaret). Only the male Wilcoxes
seem to be living for themselves, but they are far from attractive
characters, more concerned with a subtle greed and propriety that
is always ready to assume the worst in anyone beneath their
station. 
　　Here enters the unfortunate Mr. Bast, a stable if lowly clerk in
a bank in the City of London, with dreams of more, but tied to a
job and a wife, both of whom will never lead to greater things.
Through a minor accident he encounters Helen, and this eventually
leads to an affair, which leads to a potential scandal. Bast,
unfortunately, has a run-in with the Wilcox son who assumes a
gallantry quite out of place, and suffers the consequences
thereof. 
　　This text explores the dominance of inflexible social structures
and moral expectations in the post-Victorian England of the early
twentieth century. Friendship, vocation and career, love and
marriage, attitudes toward money and property ' all are keenly
examined and each, in turn, are found wanting of humanity, until
finally the elder Schlegel daughter takes a small but meaningful
stand. 
　　For those who don't know, Howards End is actually the name of a
cottage that features in the book, not prominently, but
meaningfully. The text was converted into a film that is quite
exquisite, being a well-appointed Merchant/Ivory production a la
'Room with a View' and 'A Passage to India', both also by the same
author). Forster is perhaps the quintessential novelist of the
English experience in the early part of the last century. His
juxtaposition of characters from different social classes and
backgrounds, his feeling for his characters (even as they appear to
have no feelings themselves, or very repressed feelings by American
standards), and his plots that are meandering and uneventful yet
interesting and attention-holding make for a style that is very
much in keeping with the subject matter. 
　　2.A wonderful story!!, 25 Aug 2005 
　　Reviewer: Jub "Jub" (Thailand) 
　　I read "Howards End" about two months ago. I chose this book
because of its attactive and classic cover ,which is out standing.
I quite like it because the author had shown the real
representation of Brith society that classified to upper, middle
and lower class society. It has specific manner and life style
,which is absolutely different in each of the classes. The
viewpoint of this book is to sympathize the poor, keep a promise,
good deed procreate good returns and bad deed also procreate bad
returns ,which I have learnt so much from it.

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