A Room with a View and Howards End

📘 Wit 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 "A Room With a View", and to unexpected scandal in the richer, deeply moving novel "Howards End".
"Howards End", which rivals "A Passage to India" 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.