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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100451521412
ISBN-139780451521415
eBay Product ID (ePID)953793
Product Key Features
Book TitleRoom with a View and Howards End
Number of Pages464 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1986
TopicClassics, Literary, Historical
GenreFiction
AuthorE. M. Forster
FormatUk- a Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight9 Oz
Item Length6.7 in
Item Width4.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
TitleLeadingA
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Grade ToUP
SynopsisWit and intelligence are the hallmarks of these two probing portraits of the English character written by E.M. Forster. Both are stories of extreme contrasts--in values, social class and cultural perspectives. Romantic relationships lead to conventional happiness in the delightful social comedy A Room with a View , and to unexpected scandal in the richer, deeply moving novel Howards End . Howards End , which rivals A Passage to India as Forster's greatest work, makes a country house in Hertfordshire the center and the symbol for what Lionel Trilling called a class war about who would inherit England. Commerce clashes with culture, greed with gentility. A Room with a View brings home the stuffiness of upper-middle-class Edwardian society in a tremendously funny comedy that pairs a well-bred young lady with a lusty railway clerk and satirizes both the clergy and the English notion of respectability. Quintessentially British, these two novels have become twentieth-century classics. With an introduction and bibliography by Benjamin DeMott.