Howards End

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出版者:Bantam Classics
作者:E.M. Forster
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页数:288
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出版时间:1980-01-01
价格:42.00元
装帧:Mass Market Paperback
isbn号码:9780553212082
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  • 英国文学 
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  • 小说 
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Review:

With a new Introduction by James Ivory

Commentary by Virginia Woolf, Lionel Trilling,

Malcolm Bradbury, and Joseph Epstein

Howards End is a classic English novel . . . superb and wholly cherishable . . . one that admirers have no trouble reading over and over again," said Alfred Kazin.

First published in 1910, Howards End is the novel that earned E. M. Forster recognition as a major writer. At 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. As much about the clash between individual wills as the clash between the sexes and the classes, Howards End is a novel whose central tenet, "Only connect," remains a powerful prescription for modern life.

"Howards End is undoubtedly Forster's masterpiece; it develops to their full the themes and attitudes of [his] early books and throws back upon them a new and enhancing light," wrote the critic Lionel Trilling.

E. M. Forster (1879-1970) began writing stories while at Cambridge University. He is the author of Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910), and A Passage to India (1924). His novel Maurice, about a homosexual love affair, was published posthumously in 1971.

James Ivory is an American film director and is best known for the films he has made of E. M. Forster's novels, including Howards End, which enjoyed immense critical and popular success. He lives in New York City.

Howards 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.

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Margaret Schlegel, engaged to the much older, widowed Henry Wilcox, meets her intended the morning after accepting his proposal and realizes that he is a man who has lived without introspection or true self-knowledge. As she contemplates the state of Wilcox's soul, her remedy for what ails him has become one of the most oft-quoted passages in literature:

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.

Like all of Forster's work, Howards End concerns itself with class, nationality, economic status, and how each of these affects personal relationships. It follows the intertwined fortunes of the Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, and the Wilcox family over the course of several years. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes, on the other hand, can't be bothered with the life of the mind or the heart, leading, instead, outer lives of "telegrams and anger" that foster "such virtues as neatness, decision, and obedience, virtues of the second rank, no doubt, but they have formed our civilization." Helen, after a brief flirtation with one of the Wilcox sons, has developed an antipathy for the family; Margaret, however, forms a brief but intense friendship with Mrs. Wilcox, which is cut short by the older woman's death. When her family discovers a scrap of paper requesting that Henry give their home, Howards End, to Margaret, it precipitates a spiritual crisis among them that will take years to resolve.

Forster's 1910 novel begins as a collection of seemingly unrelated events--Helen's impulsive engagement to Paul Wilcox; a chance meeting between the Schlegel sisters and an impoverished clerk named Leonard Bast at a concert; a casual conversation between the sisters and Henry Wilcox in London one night. But as it moves along, these disparate threads gradually knit into a tightly woven fabric of tragic misunderstandings, impulsive actions, and irreparable consequences, and, eventually, connection. Though set in the early years of the 20th century, Howards End seems even more suited to our own fragmented era of e-mails and anger. For readers living in such an age, the exhortation to "only connect" resonates ever more profoundly.

From AudioFile

An audiobook cannot be satisfactory unless the reader understands the text completely. In the case of a complex and subtle work like Howard's End , that's no small order. Edward Petherbridge does understand and makes all clear to the listener with unaffected authority. At the same time, he achieves such transparency that one forgets one is listening to a performance and simply experiences the story. His delivery is flawless. The story may not appeal to everyone, but the reading won't disappoint. J.N.

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Height (mm) 180         Width (mm) 110

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我琢磨了一下标题前面那个叹词,一开始,冲出脑门的是“唉…”,可这未免过于悲观;而后,是“哦…”,又过于欣喜。还是“嗯…”来得平实。海伦和玛格丽特是故事中的两位主人公,一对亲姐妹——身上流着日耳曼人血液的英国人,大龄的,知识女青年。是的,不是当今流行的“文艺...  

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霍华德庄园 英国作家福斯特的长篇小说,讲述了玛格丽特和海伦两姐妹的不同情感境遇,姐姐宽厚包容,妹妹坦诚刚烈,面对威尔克斯作为上流社会家族代表的伪善,巴斯特代表的下层公民的苟且谋生,姐姐选择和解和融合。看似简单的女性的婚姻故事却隐藏着更为宏达的文化与社会转型命...  

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怎么说呢,这是我第一次这么艰难地读完一部英国小说,几度放弃几度重新捡起,好在进入到全书的三分之二部分,才出现了跌宕起伏的情节,让人有了读下去的欲望。 我估计,福斯特一直在睡觉,到后半部分才醒来。  

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读原文有个好处,就是你会注意到很多原来容易忽略的细节。

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作者很啰嗦,很傲娇,但是很有趣,有些话说得还是够狠。只是剧情我不喜欢,能不能看完,主要看是否有足够耐心。

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作者太秀了吧,很爱在书里现身,还拿乐评书评充小说章节。有巴斯特先生的章节都写的很好,其他人物缥缈如象征物。情节走向宛如连续剧。connect with what?

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Only Connect...

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3.5星。要是这不是必读书目我可能会更喜欢一点点。总之,福斯特用高超的写作技巧和对英格兰社会的卓越理解写出了一本偶尔有趣偶尔迷惑偶尔风景好看大部分无聊无聊无聊无聊的劝人社会主义的小说。我的感受:人类真吵。

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