ABSTRACT
E. M. Forster was born in 1879 and has written only fìve novels (all between 1905 and 1924) of which the best-known is the last, A Passage to India. Howards End points up the differences between two ways of life, the imaginative and idealistic and the philistine and conventional, typifìed by the Schlegels and the Wilcoxes. After violent events some sort of compromise is reached but the argument can never be resolved. Forster is also a critic and essayist.
