Howards End

Howards End is E. M. Forster’s celebrated novel of English society, published in 1910 and built around the question of who shall inherit England. It brings together three families: the cultured, idealistic Schlegel sisters, who live for art and personal relationships; the wealthy, practical Wilcoxes, who live for business and property; and the poor clerk Leonard Bast, who reaches after the culture the others take for granted. As their lives collide over a country house called Howards End, Forster weighs the head against the heart and asks whether the divided halves of the nation can ever truly connect. It is his richest study of class and human sympathy. This free PDF and EPUB offers the complete novel.