发表于2024-11-13
Howards End 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
因为写论文的原因,好容易登到一个中文版,好用来引用。本来以为人民文学出版社和苏福忠的名字能保证质量,结果发现很差,前言里面错误百出,基本的作者信息和作品信息都没有搞清楚。更糟的是名字都写错了,写成howard end. 对于国内一流出版社,“资深”编辑,搞出这种不负责...
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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”?
Howards End 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书