Tag: E.M. Forster

• A Classic Couple: Howards End and On Beauty

  It’s finally time to return to the long-lost Classic Couple feature! Today I’ll be highlighting a pair of novels that were basically designed to go together: E.M. Forster’s Howards End (1910) and Zadie Smith’s On Beauty (2005). Smith wrote On Beauty as a purposeful homage to Forster’s novel, meaning that there are countless fascinating parallels between them. Without further ado, it’s […]

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  March 14, 2018

  Classic Couple

  Classic Couple, Classics, E.M. Forster, Howards End, literature, On Beauty, Zadie Smith

• A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster | Review

  “My father says that there is only one perfect view — the view of the sky straight over our heads, and that all these views on earth are but bungled copies of it.” I decided to read E.M. Forster’s novel A Room with a View with no knowledge whatsoever of the story’s plot or context besides […]

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  April 27, 2017

  Books, Classics Club Challenge

  A Room with a View, Book Review, books, Classics, E.M. Forster, literature, Review