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“Forster's last and most ambitious novel; perhaps his greatest. His cri de coeur of Howards End -- "Only connect!" -- cannot withstand the enormity of India and the seething cauldron of bickering, back-biting, resentment, racism and yearning for "kindness, kindness and more kindness" that is India under the British Raj. The longing for connection between East and West is overwhelming, yet well nigh impossible -- to make the attempt leads to disaster. Brimming with Forster's characteristic blend of compassion and irony, this is a novel of vivid, humanely-drawn characters, an engrossing story, and stretches of prose so beautiful and, at times, so strange that the author seems to be straining to connect with matters so ineffable as to be almost beyond his capacity to express.”
Lord Manleigh wrote this review Thursday, September 1, 2011.
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