{"product_id":"a-room-with-a-view-and-howards-end","title":"A Room with a View and Howards End","description":"Wit and intelligence are the hallmarks of these two probing portraits of the English character written by E.M. Forster. Both are stories of extreme contrasts--in values, social class and cultural perspectives. Romantic relationships lead to conventional happiness in the delightful social comedy \u003ci\u003eA Room with a View\u003c\/i\u003e, and to unexpected scandal in the richer, deeply moving novel \u003ci\u003eHowards End\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eHowards End\u003c\/i\u003e, which rivals \u003ci\u003eA Passage to India\u003c\/i\u003e as Forster's greatest work, makes a country house in Hertfordshire the center and the symbol for what Lionel Trilling called a class war about who would inherit England. Commerce clashes with culture, greed with gentility. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Room with a View\u003c\/i\u003e brings home the stuffiness of upper-middle-class Edwardian society in a tremendously funny comedy that pairs a well-bred young lady with a lusty railway clerk and satirizes both the clergy and the English notion of respectability. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Quintessentially British, these two novels have become twentieth-century classics. With an introduction and bibliography by Benjamin DeMott.","brand":"Signet Book","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48845520470221,"sku":"9780451521415","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_6be49216-9b1a-4d75-9420-0ae1c35372c3.jpg?v=1792776599","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/a-room-with-a-view-and-howards-end","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}