Howards End

E. M. Forster’s novel of two families in Edwardian England, the cultured, idealistic Schlegel sisters and the wealthy, practical Wilcoxes, whose lives become entangled over Howards End, a country house in Hertfordshire.

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Famous quotes

• Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

  Chapter 19In context

  • Friendship
  • Love

• 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. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.

  Chapter 22In context

  • Love

• People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

  Chapter 40In context

  • Life & Death

• Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him

  Chapter 41In context

  • Life & Death

Contents

1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 3
4. Chapter 4
5. Chapter 5
6. Chapter 6
7. Chapter 7
8. Chapter 8
9. Chapter 9
10. Chapter 10
11. Chapter 11
12. Chapter 12
13. Chapter 13
14. Chapter 14
15. Chapter 15
16. Chapter 16
17. Chapter 17
18. Chapter 18
19. Chapter 19
20. Chapter 20
21. Chapter 21
22. Chapter 22
23. Chapter 23
24. Chapter 24
25. Chapter 25
26. Chapter 26
27. Chapter 27
28. Chapter 28
29. Chapter 29
30. Chapter 30
31. Chapter 31
32. Chapter 32
33. Chapter 33
34. Chapter 34
35. Chapter 35
36. Chapter 36
37. Chapter 37
38. Chapter 38
39. Chapter 39
40. Chapter 40
41. Chapter 41
42. Chapter 42
43. Chapter 43
44. Chapter 44