{"product_id":"9780451521415","title":"A Room with a View and Howards End","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eForster, E. M.; DeMott, Benjamin\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSignet\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e2\/4\/1986\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eMass-market Paperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003eWit 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Quintessentially British, these two novels have become twentieth-century classics. With an introduction and bibliography by Benjamin DeMott.","brand":"Signet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42957510607103,"sku":"9780451521415","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780451521415_s600x595.jpg?v=1782325022","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9780451521415","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}