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发表于2025-03-30
Howards End pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025
Considered by many to be E. M. Forster ’s greatest novel, Howards End is a beautifully subtle tale of two very different families brought together by an unusual event. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes are practical and materialistic, leading lives of “telegrams and anger.” When the elder Mrs. Wilcox dies and her family discovers she has left their country home—Howards End—to one of the Schlegel sisters, a crisis between the two families is precipitated that takes years to resolve. Written in 1910, Howards End is a symbolic exploration of the social, economic, and intellectual forces at work in England in the years preceding World War I, a time when vast social changes were occurring. In the Schlegels and the Wilcoxes, Forster perfectly embodies the competing idealism and materialism of the upper classes, while the conflict over the ownership of Howards End represents the struggle for possession of the country’s future. As critic Lionel Trilling once noted, the novel asks, “Who shall inherit England?”
Forster refuses to take sides in this conflict. Instead he poses one of the book’s central questions: In a changing modern society, what should be the relation between the inner and outer life, between the world of the intellect and the world of business? Can they ever, as Forster urges, “only connect”?
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。
評分怎么说呢,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。
評分这本书我看了两遍,正如作品介绍里说的这不是一部关于爱情的小说。 福斯特在20世纪初的英国文坛享有很高的声誉。但这部他早期最好的小说让我产生了疑问,他真的有那么好吗? 总的来说写得还可以,但不能进入文学史上伟大小说的行列。故事简单,人物单薄,用词无甚亮点,爱情...
評分 評分Howards End pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025