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Howards End

EM Forster

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The Schlegel sisters' encounters with the wealthy Wilcoxes draw two very different households into one another's lives. Their connection with the financially precarious Leonard Bast adds another set of obligations, while the country house Howards End becomes a focus for competing ideas of home and possession.

44 sections109,513 wordsAbout 8 h 18 min
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About Howards End

Forster moves between intimate conversation and the larger systems that make intimacy unequal. Culture, money, inheritance, and practical responsibility collide whenever a generous intention meets another person's material situation. The changing significance of houses helps connect private attachments to questions about who can afford stability and whose claims receive recognition.

Reading focus

Explore the distance between sympathy and responsibility in a novel of households, class divisions, and competing claims to a home.

This reading edition contains 109,513 words in 44 original sections. Read the text online with adjustable type and three colour themes, or keep a printable PDF.

Author: EM Forster. Language: English. Reading edition: 28 October 2026.

Opening excerpt

One may as well begin with Helen’s letters to her sister.

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Contents

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  1. Chapter 16 min
  2. Chapter 210 min
  3. Chapter 315 min
  4. Chapter 413 min
  5. Chapter 522 min
  6. Chapter 616 min
  7. Chapter 712 min
  8. Chapter 814 min
  9. Chapter 98 min
  10. Chapter 1013 min
  11. Chapter 1122 min
  12. Chapter 129 min
  13. Chapter 1311 min
  14. Chapter 1416 min
  15. Chapter 1518 min
  16. Chapter 1617 min
  17. Chapter 1711 min
  18. Chapter 1815 min
  19. Chapter 1914 min
  20. Chapter 2012 min
  21. Chapter 212 min
  22. Chapter 2211 min
  23. Chapter 2314 min
  24. Chapter 247 min
  25. Chapter 2516 min
  26. Chapter 2624 min
  27. Chapter 2710 min
  28. Chapter 286 min
  29. Chapter 2910 min
  30. Chapter 3011 min
  31. Chapter 319 min
  32. Chapter 326 min
  33. Chapter 3314 min
  34. Chapter 3415 min
  35. Chapter 356 min
  36. Chapter 364 min
  37. Chapter 3715 min
  38. Chapter 389 min
  39. Chapter 394 min
  40. Chapter 407 min
  41. Chapter 4115 min
  42. Chapter 427 min
  43. Chapter 439 min
  44. Chapter 4412 min

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