“One sound man of business does more good for the world than a dozen of your social reformers,” Henry Wilcox says in the television adaptation of “Howards End,” set to begin airing April 8 on Starz. The line is lifted almost exactly from E.M. Forster’s 1910 novel about three families in turn-of-the-century England, in which characters grapple with such 21st-century issues as the ethics of getting and giving money, the disparities of class and women’s rights.

Source: Wall Street Journal March 29, 2018 03:56 UTC