Oh, to pronounce foreign names correctly!” That’s all poor old Leonard Bast wants — well, he’d like his brolly back too. Someone’s wandered off with it after a Beethoven concert and Bast, a lowly clerk, is poor enough to be upset by the loss. It turns out the culprit is wealthy, cultivated Helen Schlegel. Howards End, published in 1910, explores the social and philosophical forces coursing through Edwardian England. The choice is between lowly, self-improving Bast, the idealistic, intellectual Schlegels and…

Source: The Times August 11, 2017 23:03 UTC