{"product_id":"a-room-with-a-view-and-howards-end-paperback","title":"A Room with a View and Howards End - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eE. M. Forster\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBenjamin Demott\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWit 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 \u003ci\u003eA Room with a View\u003c\/i\u003e, and to unexpected scandal in the richer, deeply moving novel \u003ci\u003eHowards End\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eHowards End\u003c\/i\u003e, which rivals \u003ci\u003eA Passage to India\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Room with a View\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Quintessentially British, these two novels have become twentieth-century classics. With an introduction and bibliography by Benjamin DeMott.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdward Morgan Forster\u003c\/b\u003e was born in London in 1879, attended Tonbridge School as a day boy, and went on to King's College, Cambridge, in 1897. With King's he had a lifelong connection and was elected to an Honorary Fellowship in 1946. He declared that his life as a whole had not been dramatic, and he was unfailingly modest about his achievements. Interviewed by the BBC on his eightieth birthday, he said: 'I have not written as much as I'd like to . . . I write for two reasons: partly to make money and partly to win the respect of people whom I respect . . . I had better add that I am quite sure I am not a great novelist.' Eminent critics and the general public have judged otherwise and in his obituary \u003cb\u003eThe Times\u003c\/b\u003e called him 'one of the most esteemed English novelists of his time'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe wrote six novels, four of which appeared before the First World War, \u003cb\u003eWhere Angels Fear to Tread\u003c\/b\u003e (1905), \u003cb\u003eThe Longest Journey\u003c\/b\u003e (1907), \u003cb\u003eA Room with a View\u003c\/b\u003e (1908), and \u003cb\u003eHoward's End\u003c\/b\u003e (1910). An interval of fourteen years elapsed before he published \u003cb\u003eA Passage to India\u003c\/b\u003e. It won both the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. \u003cb\u003eMaurice\u003c\/b\u003e, his novel on a homosexual theme, finished in 1914, was published posthumously in 1971. He also published two volumes of short stories; two collections of essays; a critical work, \u003cb\u003eAspects of the Novel\u003c\/b\u003e; \u003cb\u003eThe Hill of Devi\u003c\/b\u003e, a fascinating record of two visits Forster made to the Indian State of Dewas Senior; two biographies; two books about Alexandria (where he worked for the Red Cross in the First World War); and, with Eric Crozier, the libretto for Britten's opera \u003cb\u003eBilly Budd\u003c\/b\u003e. He died in June 1970.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 449\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.22 x 6.89 x 4.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 04, 1986\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51756003852576,"sku":"9780451521415","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6a5e3cbc8c09ce6a3d1cc1905164293d.webp?v=1780072486","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-room-with-a-view-and-howards-end-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}