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«Говардс-Энд» – один из лучших романов Форстера.Книга, которая вошла в список «100 лучших романов» Новейшей библиотеки США и легла в основу сценария оскароносного фильма Джеймса Айвори с Энтони Хопкинсом, Эммой Томпсон и Хеленой Бонэм Картер в главных ролях.Одно из самых ярких произведений в жанре семейной саги, когда-либо выходивших из-под писательского пера.В усадьбе Говардс-Энд разыгрывается драма трех семейств – богатых буржуа Уилкоксов, интеллигентов Шлегелей и простых провинциальных...

E.M. Forster is best known for his exquisite novels, but these two affecting short stories brilliantly combine the fantastical with the allegorical. In 'The Machine Stops', humanity has isolated itself beneath the ground, enmeshed in automated comforts, and in 'The Celestial Omnibus' a young boy takes a trip his parents believe impossible. This book contains The Machine Stops and A Celestial Omnibus.

'Only connect.' is the idea at the heart of this book, a heartbreaking and provocative tale of three families at the beginning of the twentieth century: the rich Wilcoxes, the gentle, idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts. As the Schlegel sisters try desperately to help the Basts and educate the close-minded Wilcoxes, the families are drawn together in love, lies and death. Frequently cited as E. M. Forster's finest work, Howards End brilliantly explores class warfare,...

Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Pertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney Signora, curious Mr Emerson and, most of all, his passionate son George. Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy and the repressed morals of...