"on ""Howards End"" by E. M. Forster; Smith has called it an ""homage"". Among the parallels are the opening sections (""Howards End"" begins with letters from Helen to her sister, ""On Beauty"" with emails from Jerome to his father); the bequeathing of a valuable item to a member of the other family (the Wilcox house ""Howards End"" is left by Ruth Wilcox to Margaret Schlegel; Carlene leaves Kiki a painting); and, more broadly, the idea of two families with very different ideas and values gradually becoming linked. The setting of much of the novel, the fictitious Wellington College and surrounding"
"libretto ""Howards End, America"" was created in 2016 by Claudia Stevens. Forster achieved his greatest success with ""A Passage to India"" (1924). The novel takes as its subject the relationship between East and West, seen through the lens of India in the later days of the British Raj. Forster connects personal relationships with the politics of colonialism through the story of the Englishwoman Adela Quested, the Indian Dr. Aziz, and the question of what did or did not happen between them in the Marabar Caves. Forster makes special mention of the author Ahmed Ali and his ""Twilight in Delhi"" in"
"Hills End Hills End is a children's book by Ivan Southall published in 1962 and later adapted for television. The story follows seven children and their teacher who are trapped inside a cave while a fierce cyclonic storm destroys the fictional town of Hills End. They face a struggle to survive as well as having to deal with their loss. A mystery also surrounds ancient aboriginal art found in the cave. Southall had lost his family farm shortly before the publication of ""Hills End"", but its success established him as a writer both in Australia and internationally. John Rowe Thompson"
"The books share many themes with his short stories collected in ""The Celestial Omnibus"" and ""The Eternal Moment"". ""Howards End"" (1910) is an ambitious ""condition-of-England"" novel concerned with different groups within the Edwardian middle classes, represented by the Schlegels (bohemian intellectuals), the Wilcoxes (thoughtless plutocrats) and the Basts (struggling lower-middle-class aspirants). Critics have observed that numerous characters in Forster's novels die suddenly. This is true of ""Where Angels Fear to Tread"", ""Howards End"" and, most particularly, ""The Longest Journey"". ""Howards End"" was adapted as a film in 1991 by the Merchant-Ivory team and as a miniseries in 2017. An opera"
"friendship, confusing Forster with constant avowals of his love. LGBT E. M. Forster Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 18797 June 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. Many of his novels examined class difference and hypocrisy, including ""A Room with a View"" (1908), ""Howards End"" (1910) and ""A Passage to India"" (1924). The last brought him his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 different years. Forster was born into an Anglo-Irish and Welsh family at 6 Melcombe Place, Dorset Square, London NW1, in a building that no longer exists."
"Parade's End Parade's End (1924-1928) is a tetralogy of novels by the British novelist and poet Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939). The novels chronicles the life of an English noble before, during and after World War I. The setting is mainly England and the Western Front of the First World War, in which Ford had served as an officer in the Welch Regiment, a life he vividly depicts. The individual novels are: The work is a complex tale written in a modernist style (""it is as modern and modernist as they come""), which does not concentrate on detailing the experience of"
"Childhood's End Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by the British author Arthur C. Clarke. The story follows the peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious Overlords, whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture. Clarke's idea for the book began with his short story ""Guardian Angel"" (1946), which he expanded into a novel in 1952, incorporating it as the first part of the book, ""Earth and the Overlords"". Completed and published in 1953, ""Childhood's End"" sold out its first printing, received good reviews and became"
"E. M. Forster Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 18797 June 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. Many of his novels examined class difference and hypocrisy, including ""A Room with a View"" (1908), ""Howards End"" (1910) and ""A Passage to India"" (1924). The last brought him his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 different years. Forster was born into an Anglo-Irish and Welsh family at 6 Melcombe Place, Dorset Square, London NW1, in a building that no longer exists. He was the only child of Alice Clara ""Lily"" (née"
"Lindsay (1979) was completed by Anthony Barker. Robert Guy Howarth Robert Guy Howarth (1906–1974) was an Australian scholar, literary critic and poet. Born in Tenterfield, NSW, his father was a school teacher. After education at Fort Street High School, the University of Sydney and Oxford University, and editing several books, he was appointed lecturer in English at Sydney University in 1933. He was an encouraging and generous teacher and colleague, and established a reputation as an expert in Elizabethan tragedy and Restoration comedy. He introduced modernist and contemporary writers, and Australian writers, into the curriculum. In 1939 he persuaded the"
"The Well at the World's End The Well at the World's End is a high fantasy novel by the British artist, poet, and author William Morris. It was first published in 1896 and has been reprinted a number of times since, most notably in two parts as the 20th and 21st volumes of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series, in August and September 1970. Using language with elements of the medieval tales which were his models, Morris tells the story of Peter, King of Upmeads, and his four sons, Blaise, Hugh, Gregory, and Ralph. These four sons decide one day that"
"World's End (Chadbourn novel) World's End is a novel written by British author Mark Chadbourn and the initial entry in The Age of Misrule trilogy. It was first published in Great Britain by Millennium on 14 September 2000. An edition collecting all three books in ""The Age of Misrule"" series (""World's End"", ""Darkest Hour"" and ""Always Forever"") was published in Great Britain on 14 September 2006. Jack 'Church' Churchill – a man still tormented by the suicide of his girlfriend Marianne two years previously – and Ruth Gallagher – a lawyer increasingly disillusioned with the way her life has turned"
"and Helen Schlegel, the central characters in Howards End. Posthumous: Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (6 August 1862 – 3 August 1932), known as Goldie, was a British political scientist and philosopher. He lived most of his life at Cambridge, where he wrote a dissertation on Neoplatonism before becoming a fellow. He was closely associated with the Bloomsbury Group. Dickinson was deeply distressed by Britain's involvement in the First World War. Within a fortnight of the war's breaking out he drew up the idea of a League of Nations, and his subsequent writings helped to shape public opinion towards"
"Ford Madox Ford Ford Madox Ford (born Ford Hermann Hueffer ( ); 17 December 1873 – 26 June 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals, ""The English Review"" and ""The Transatlantic Review"", were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature. Ford is now remembered for his novels ""The Good Soldier"" (1915), the ""Parade's End"" tetralogy (1924–28) and ""The Fifth Queen"" trilogy (1906–08). ""The Good Soldier"" is frequently included among the great literature of the 20th century, including the Modern Library 100 Best Novels, ""The Observer""′s ""100 Greatest Novels of All Time"", and ""The Guardian""′s"
"instruction of John Evelyn and described by Elwes as ""one of the finest and most imposing avenues in the world"". The wych elms were felled in 1943. E. M. Forster cites a particular wych elm, one that grew at his childhood home of Rooks Nest, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, sixteen times in his novel ""Howards End"". This tree overhangs the house of the title and is said to have a ""...""girth that a dozen men could not have spanned""..."" Forster describes the tree as ""...""a comrade, bending over the house, strength and adventure in its roots""."" The wych elm of the novel"
"Death's End Death’s End (, ) is a science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. It is the third novel in the trilogy titled Remembrance of Earth's Past, following the Hugo Award-winning novel ""The Three-Body Problem"" and its sequel, ""The Dark Forest"". The original Chinese version was published in 2010, while the English version, translated by Ken Liu, was published on . Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing daily"
"Hannah Hurnard Hannah Hurnard (1905–90) is a 20th-century Christian author, best known for her allegorical novel, ""Hinds' Feet on High Places"". Hurnard was born in 1905 in Colchester, England, to Quaker parents. She graduated from Ridgelands Bible College in 1926. In 1932 she became an independent missionary, moving to Haifa, Palestine. Her work in Palestine and later Israel lasted 50 years, although she would later maintain a home in England as well. Hurnard's early writings (especially ""Hinds' Feet on High Places"" and the sequel ""Mountain of Spices"") were embraced by the mainstream Christian community, but later on in her life"
"with no need of destructive wars. This hope is voiced by Human as well as ""Lizard"" characters. However, the book ends on a deliberately ambiguous note, with both optimistic and pessimistic scenarios fully feasible in the characters' immediate future. Homeward Bound (Turtledove novel) Homeward Bound (2004) is a science fiction, alternate history novel by Harry Turtledove. It is the eighth and final work in his ""Worldwar series"" fictional universe. It follows the events of the Colonization trilogy, and gives some closure to the storylines. Homeward Bound begins in 1972, then flashes forward to 1977, 1982, 1984, 1994, 2012, and finally"
"Hood (novel) Hood is the second novel written by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue, published in 1995. The book was the recipient of the 1997 Stonewall Book Award and is heavily influenced by James Joyce's ""Ulysses"". First published in the U.S. in 1995 and most recently published by HarperCollins in 2011. This novel takes place in the seven days after Pen O'Grady's lover, Cara Wall, has been killed in a car accident. The two had been together for thirteen years, after meeting as schoolgirls in a Catholic school in Dublin. The story combines flashbacks giving the history of Pen and Cara's"
"Remember the End Remember the End is the second novel by the American writer Agnes Sligh Turnbull (1888–1982) and it is set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from the 1890s to World War I. The protagonist Alex MacTay is a Scotsman who is called to be a poet, but instead emigrates to America. On a farm in Western Pennsylvania he forms a partnership in a coal mine, marries the farmer's daughter, and suppresses his aesthetic interests. By age 34 he owns two coal mines and has made his first million, but at the cost of deeply wounding his wife and alienating his"
"World Without End (Follett novel) World Without End is a best-selling 2007 novel by Welsh author Ken Follett. It is the second book in the Kingsbridge Series, and is the sequel to 1989's ""The Pillars of the Earth"". ""World Without End"" takes place in the same fictional town as ""Pillars of the Earth"" — Kingsbridge — and features the descendants of some ""Pillars"" characters 157 years later. The plot incorporates two major historical events, the start of the Hundred Years' War and the Black Death. The author was inspired by real historical events relating to the Cathedral of Santa María"
"include ""Gordon's War"" (1973). He was the featured narrator of the Ballad of Little Jimmy Scott (PBS). He died of complications from Parkinson's disease. Nathan Heard Nathan Heard (November 7, 1936 – March 16, 2004), sometimes known as Nathan C. Heard, was a best-selling author in the United States, noted for the grim realism of his novels. He is also known as one of the forefathers of street and prison literatures, having written his most famous book, ""Howard Street"" (1968), while serving time in the Trenton State Penitentiary for armed robbery. Heard is the son of Blues singer Gladys Heard"
"Sunset at Blandings Sunset at Blandings is an unfinished novel by P. G. Wodehouse published in the United Kingdom by Chatto & Windus, London, on 17 November 1977 and in the United States by Simon & Schuster, New York, 19 September 1978. Wodehouse was still working on the book when he died in 1975; the published version was edited by Richard Usborne, and includes Wodehouse's notes on the ending of the story. The story is, as the poignant name suggests, another tale set at Blandings Castle, filled as ever with romance and imposters. Galahad Threepwood uses his charm and wit"
"a Hero"" (1929) by Richard Aldington, ""The Middle Parts of Fortune"" (1929) by Frederic Manning, ""The Patriot's Progress"" (1930) by Henry Williamson, ""Generals Die in Bed"" by Charles Yale Harrison (1930) and ""Winged Victory"" (1934) by Victor Maslin Yeates. ""Parade's End"" by Ford Madox Ford was a highly acclaimed tetralogy of novels, published between 1924 and 1927, that covers the events of World War I and the years around it from the viewpoint of a government statistician who becomes an officer in the British Army during the war. The novels were based on Ford's own experience in the war after"
"Sydney James Bounds Sydney James Bounds (4 November 1920 – 24 November 2006) was an English author. He wrote as Sydney J. Bounds and S. J. Bounds, as well as under the pen names Clifford Wallace, James Marshall, Earl Ellison and Rex Marlowe. He wrote over forty novels and hundreds of short stories, many published under pseudonyms or anonymously. He was best known for his science fiction, but also wrote horror, Westerns, mysteries and juveniles. Bounds' debut professional sale under his own name appears in 1946 in the first issue of Outlands magazine, the publication of which left Bounds feeling"
"include ""The Sutherlands"" (1862), ""Louie's Last Term at St. Mary's"" (1864), ""Frank Warrington"" (1863), ""Richard Vandermark"" (1871), ""Roundhearts, and other Stories"" (1871), ""A Perfect Adonis"" (1880), ""Missy"" (1882), ""Dear Feast of Lent"" (1883) and ""The Tents of Wickedness"" (1909), Miriam Coles Harris Miriam Coles was born into a Long Island family going back to the 17th Century. She was descended from Robert Coles who immigrated to America with John Winthrop in 1630. She was educated at St. Mary's Hall-Doane Academy (now Doane Academy) in Burlington, New Jersey, and Mme. Canda's Girls' School in New York City. On April 20, 1864,"
"Deep End (short story) ""Deep End"" is a short story written in 1961 by British author J. G. Ballard. It first appeared in the May 1961 edition of ""New Worlds"" (Volume 36, Number 106) and then in the 1962 collection ""The Voices of Time and Other Stories"" followed by """" in 2006. The tale is typical of Ballard's dystopian science fiction. In either a near-future or alternate present reality, the Earth lies nearly desolate after extensive overuse of its resources in order to colonise other planets. The oceans had undergone 'oxygen mining' to electrolytically provide oxygen for the atmospheres for"
"end. Play to the End Play to the End is a crime novel by Robert Goddard first published in 2004. It is set in Brighton in December 2002 and revolves around a local entrepreneur whose wealth may be based on shady practices carried out by his family business at some point in the past. Middle-aged actor Toby Flood is touring the South of England with a recently discovered play by Joe Orton called ""Lodger in the Throat"". When the company arrive in Brighton for a one-week run at the Theatre Royal, Flood is confident that he will be able to"
"To the End of the Land To the End of the Land (original Hebrew title ""Isha Borachat Mi’bsora"" – ""A Woman Flees a Message"") is a 2008 novel by Israeli writer David Grossman depicting the emotional strains that family members of soldiers experience when their loved ones are deployed into combat. Grossman began writing the novel in May 2003 when his oldest son Yonatan was serving in the Israeli Defense Forces and the book was largely complete by August 2006 when his younger son Uri was killed in the Second Lebanon War. Originally written in Hebrew, an English translation by"
"wrote of the book """"Hills End"" is almost a perfect novel of its kind... The rapid character development and self-discovery of the children under stress are notable."" ""Hills End"" is regarded as a classic of Australian children's literature. The book is studied in Australia in the early years of high school both as a work of literature and to aid discussion on the impact of natural disasters. The mini-series ""Hills End"" starred Madge Ryan, John Noble, Maree D'Arcy, Katharine Cullen, Clayton Williamson, Jason Degiorgio, Emma Fowler, Haydon Samuels and Caitlin Procter. It originally aired on ABC Television in 1989. Hills"
"World's End (Sinclair novel) World's End is the first novel of Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd series. First published in 1940, after World War II had begun in Europe the previous year, the story covers the period from 1913 to 1919, before and after World War I. Lanny Budd is a teenage student at a private school in Germany for music and dance. Budd, born in Switzerland, is the grandson of the president of Budd Gunmakers in New England. His parents are American born: his father is the European sales representative, and his mother, his father's former mistress, is supported in"
"Edward Morgan Forster from 1884 to 1894. Forster used Rooksnest and the surrounding area as the setting for his novel ""Howards End"". In the preface to one paperback edition of ""Howards End"" there is a lot to be found about landmarks of Stevenage and their relationship to the story of the novel, such as Stevenage High Street and the Six Hills. The land north of St Nicholas' Church, known as Forster Country, is the last remaining farmland within the boundary of Stevenage borough. Forster was unhappy with the development of new Stevenage, which would, in his words, ""fall out of"
"Play to the End Play to the End is a crime novel by Robert Goddard first published in 2004. It is set in Brighton in December 2002 and revolves around a local entrepreneur whose wealth may be based on shady practices carried out by his family business at some point in the past. Middle-aged actor Toby Flood is touring the South of England with a recently discovered play by Joe Orton called ""Lodger in the Throat"". When the company arrive in Brighton for a one-week run at the Theatre Royal, Flood is confident that he will be able to use"
"Ronald Hardy Ronald Harold Hardy (16 November 1919 – October 1991) was an English novelist and screenwriter. His first novel ""The Place of Jackals"" was published in 1954 to acclaim. Hardy drew on his experiences as a liaison officer in Indochina during World War II in the writing of this novel. A review in ""Time"" magazine claimed that the novel """"establishes him as Graham Greene's No. 1 disciple."""" Hardy won the 1962 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his fifth novel ""Act of Destruction"". Besides his nine works of fiction, he wrote one non-fiction book about the construction of the"