Tag: E. M. Forster

A Room With A View
Unabridged Large Print Edition
by E. M. Forster

This unabridged large print Edition is not an electronic scan or reproduction. The text has been formatted and edited by human editors, based on the classic original edition, and is printed on heavyweight bright white paper with a fully laminated cover.

One of Forster’s earlier works, A Room with a View (1908) has demonstrated enduring popularity arising from the vivid cast of characters, humorous dialogue, and comedic commentary on the restrained culture of Edwardian-era England. and fixation on “propriety” among the minor gentry. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a humorous critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. Continue reading “A Room With A View [Large Print]”

Howards End
Unabridged Large Print Edition
by E. M. Forster

Howards End (1910) is known as a “condition-of-England” novel about social conventions, codes of conduct and relationships in turn-of-the-twentieth-century England and is considered by many to be Forster’s finest work. The story revolves around three families: the Wilcoxes, representing “new money” and global capitalism, the half-German Schlegel sisters (Margaret, Helen, and Tibby), representing the educated, cosmopolitan “New Woman” and raising questions of women’s rights and status in society, and the Basts, representing the precarious hold on life of the impoverished lower class. Continue reading “Howards End [Large Print]”