{"product_id":"howards-end-introduction-by-alfred-kazin-hardcover","title":"Howards End: Introduction by Alfred Kazin - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eE. M. Forster\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAlfred Kazin\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1910, \u003ci\u003eHowards End\u003c\/i\u003e is the novel that earned E. M. Forster recognition as a major writer. Soon to be a limited series on Starz. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs much about the clash between individual wills as the clash between the sexes and the classes, \u003ci\u003eHowards End\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel whose central tenet, \"Only connect,\" remains a powerful prescription for modern life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIntroduction by Alfred Kazan\u003cp\u003e(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHowards 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdward Morgan Forster 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e called him 'one of the most esteemed English novelists of his time'.He wrote six novels, four of which appeared before the First World War, \u003ci\u003eWhere Angels Fear to Tread \u003c\/i\u003e(1905), \u003ci\u003eThe Longest Journey \u003c\/i\u003e(1907), \u003ci\u003eA Room with a View\u003c\/i\u003e (1908), and \u003ci\u003eHoward's End\u003c\/i\u003e (1910). An interval of fourteen years elapsed before he published \u003ci\u003eA Passage to India.\u003c\/i\u003e It won both the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. \u003ci\u003eMaurice\u003c\/i\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, \u003ci\u003eAspects of the Novel; The Hill of Devi\u003c\/i\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 \u003ci\u003eBilly Budd\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in June 1970.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 408\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.91 x 8.34 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 26, 1991\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51756910805280,"sku":"9780679406686","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/79fd3711af4dc773828102f818e1a278.webp?v=1780089030","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/howards-end-introduction-by-alfred-kazin-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}