Tag: Howards End

• 8 Classic Novels about Family Dynamics | Recommendations

  Happy Mother’s Day!! In honor of this special day, I thought I would share some classic novels about family dynamics… albeit, not always the most positive ones! I think reading about fictional families is so interesting, and a close look at family dynamics always adds more depth to a novel. Books like these are a…

  holly

  May 10, 2020

  Books, Recommendations

  books, Classic Literature, Classics, Families, Howards End, Little Women, Middlemarch, Mother’s Day, Pride and Prejudice, Recommendations

• 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…

  holly

  March 14, 2018

  Classic Couple

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