A meticulously-observed drama of class warfare, E.M. Forster's "Howards End" explores the conflict inherent within English society, unveiling the character of a nation as never before. This "Penguin Classics" edition includes an introduction and notes by David Lodge. 'Only connect...' A chance acquaintance brings together the preposterous bourgeois Wilcox family and the clever,...
A meticulously-observed drama of class warfare, E.M. Forster's "Howards End" explores the conflict inherent within English society, unveiling the character of a nation as never before. This "Penguin Classics" edition includes an introduction and notes by David Lodge. 'Only connect...' A chance acquaintance brings together the preposterous bourgeois Wilcox family and the clever, cultured and idealistic Schlegel sisters. As clear-eyed Margaret develops a friendship with Mrs Wilcox, the impetuous Helen brings into their midst a young bank clerk named Leonard Bast, who lives at the edge of poverty and ruin. When Mrs Wilcox dies, her family discovers that she wants to leave her country home, Howards End, to Margaret. Thus as Forster sets in motion a chain of events that will entangle three different families, he brilliantly portrays their aspirations to personal and social harmony. David Lodge's introduction provides an absorbing and eloquent overture to the 1910 novel that established Forster's reputation as an important writer, and that he himself later referred to as 'my best novel'. This edition also contains a note on the text, suggestions for further reading, and explanatory notes. E. M. Forster (1879-1970) was a noted English author and critic and a member of the Bloomsbury group. His first novel, "Where Angels Fear To Tread" appeared in 1905. "The Longest Journey" appeared in 1907, followed by "A Room With A View" (1908), based partly on the material from extended holidays in Italy with his mother. "Howards End" (1910) was a story that centered on an English country house and dealt with the clash between two families, one interested in art and literature, the other only in business. "Maurice" was revised several times during his life, and finally published posthumously in 1971. If you enjoyed "Howard's End", you might like Forster's "A Room with a View", also available in "Penguin Classics".
E•M•福斯特（Edward Morgan Forster，1879—1970），英国著名小说家、散文家和批评家，著名的人道主义者，毕业于剑桥大学国王学院，后被母校聘为荣誉研究员。主要作品有长篇小说《天使不敢涉足的地方》（1905）、《最漫长的旅程》（1907）、《看得见风景的房间》（1908）、《霍华德庄园》（1910）、《莫瑞斯》（创作于1913—1914年，1971年作者逝世后出版）、《印度之行》（1924）；两部短篇小说集《天国公共马车》（1911）和《永恒的瞬间》（1928），后合为《福斯特短篇小说集》（1947）；以及广受好评的小说评论专著《小说面面观》（1927，原为在剑桥大学的系列演讲）。
E•M•福斯特（Edward Morgan Forster，1879—1970），英国著名小说家、散文家和批评家，著名的人道主义者，毕业于剑桥大学国王学院，后被母校聘为荣誉研究员。主要作品有长篇小说《天使不敢涉足的地方》（1905）、《最漫长的旅程》（1907）、《看得见风景的房间》（1908）、《霍华德庄园》（1910）、《莫瑞斯》（创作于1913—1914年，1971年作者逝世后出版）、《印度之行》（1924）；两部短篇小说集《天国公共马车》（1911）和《永恒的瞬间》（1928），后合为《福斯特短篇小说集》（1947）；以及广受好评的小说评论专著《小说面面观》（1927，原为在剑桥大学的系列演讲）。
‘… The truth is that there is a great outer life that you and I have never touched — a life in which telegrams and anger count. Personal relations, that we think are supreme, are not supreme there. There love means marriage settlements; death, death duties. So far I’m clear. But here’s my difficulty. This outer life, though obviously horrid, often seems the real one — there’s grit in it. It does breed character. Do personal relations lead to sloppiness in the end?’
‘Oh, Meg, that’s what I felt, only not so clearly, when the Welcomes were so competent, and seemed to have their hans on all the ropes.’
‘Don’t you fell it now?’
‘I remember Paul at breakfast,’ said Helen quietly. ‘I shall never forget him. He had nothing to fall back upon. I know that personal relations are the real life, for e... (查看原文)
'Do you imply that we Germans are stupid, Uncle Ernst?" exclaimed a haughty and magnificent nephew. Uncle Ernst replied:’To my mind. You use the intellect, but you no longer care about it. That I call stupidity.’ As the haughty nephew did not follow, he continued:’You only care about the things that you can use, and therefore arrange them in the following order: money, supremely useful; intellect, rather useful; imagination, of no use at all. No’ — for the other had protested — ‘your Pan-Germanism is no more imaginative than is our Imperialism over here. It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven. That is not imaginati... (查看原文)
同名电影里Leonard Bast的暴毙将我从一场snoozefest拽醒过来。「Books fell over him in a shower」，小说中对死亡是如此轻巧淡写，但E·M·福斯特不忘反复着「Death destroys a man; the idea of Death saves him」的咒语，简单而隆重。书中的婚姻恋爱观念几多荒谬，因他是躲在柜子里的小说家。小说将近结尾时候，Le...同名电影里Leonard Bast的暴毙将我从一场snoozefest拽醒过来。「Books fell over him in a shower」，小说中对死亡是如此轻巧淡写，但E·M·福斯特不忘反复着「Death destroys a man; the idea of Death saves him」的咒语，简单而隆重。书中的婚姻恋爱观念几多荒谬，因他是躲在柜子里的小说家。小说将近结尾时候，Leonard还在梦中自话「Is there life in the moon？」。难以想象福斯特也曾见证过人类造访月球的第一次。(展开)
At first I thought it is a love story and the man whose unbrella was taken by Helen carelessly will fall in love with one of Schlegel sisters and all of them will live in Wickham Place happily ever after. Soon I realized I must be wrong. First of all, even ...
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2 有用 Pearreap 2014-06-15 02:07:33
结尾好仓促本来看着还剩好多页没读结果最后是个评论，结束真突然= = 反正我是作者的脑残粉啦，即使有的段落真是看多少遍也不知道他在讲神马只符合他自己逻辑的东西……
1 有用 Listerine 2020-06-18 14:12:29
同名电影里Leonard Bast的暴毙将我从一场snoozefest拽醒过来。「Books fell over him in a shower」，小说中对死亡是如此轻巧淡写，但E·M·福斯特不忘反复着「Death destroys a man; the idea of Death saves him」的咒语，简单而隆重。书中的婚姻恋爱观念几多荒谬，因他是躲在柜子里的小说家。小说将近结尾时候，Le... 同名电影里Leonard Bast的暴毙将我从一场snoozefest拽醒过来。「Books fell over him in a shower」，小说中对死亡是如此轻巧淡写，但E·M·福斯特不忘反复着「Death destroys a man; the idea of Death saves him」的咒语，简单而隆重。书中的婚姻恋爱观念几多荒谬，因他是躲在柜子里的小说家。小说将近结尾时候，Leonard还在梦中自话「Is there life in the moon？」。难以想象福斯特也曾见证过人类造访月球的第一次。 (展开)
1 有用 Leo Hepburn 2011-04-17 04:53:00
"Let Squalor be turned into Tragedy, whose eyes are the stars, and whose hands hold the sunset and the dawn."
0 有用 太妃甜酒 2021-11-17 23:05:26
文人的忧愁。
0 有用 REDRUM 2022-09-07 23:22:02
住在象牙塔里的中上层阶级的无病呻吟，全书只有Leonard的死打动了我，what a heavenly way to die