rusalka 's review for:

Howards End by E.M. Forster

4.0

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This book is quaint and wise. Quaint because some of the essential plot elements hinge on moral concerns that are quite old-fashioned; wise because the social structure of the Howards End world, the tension between rich and poor, urban and rural, the Imperialists and the intellectuals, only became more relevant as time wore on and the world moved forward. Some novels written on the eve of the First World War can be touching in their innocence of the horrors the 20th century would bring; this one is touching because, in some important ways, it prefigures those horrors.

I loved Margaret and Helen. Forster wrote remarkably good female characters.