Forster M.

This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England.A charming young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted to this man, George Emerson—who is entirely unsuitable and whose father just may be a Socialist—Lucy is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires. Back in England, she is courted by a more acceptable, if stifling, suitor and soon realizes she must make a startling decision that will decide the course of her future: she is forced to choose between convention and passion.

The disregard of a dying woman's bequest, a girl's attempt to help an impoverished clerk, and the marriage of an idealist and a materialist — all intersect at an estate called Howards End. The fate of this country home symbolizes the future of England in an exploration of social, economic, and philosophical trends during the post-Victorian era.

A traveler steps off the road and finds himself in an alternate reality. A sullen boy accidentally summons a spirit. A man gets more than he bargained for when he buys his fiancée a plot of wooded land.These six stories deal with transformations, the truth of the imagination, and the effect of the unseen on ordinary lives. By juxtaposing the Edwardian English with pagan mythology, E.M. Forster created in this collection a work of lasting strangeness and great beauty.

Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and congenitally lame young man, orphaned at the age of 15, escapes from the misery of suburban life and the bullying of public school to Cambridge, where, like Forster himself, he finds sympathetic friends, chief amongst them Ansell, a grocer's son. He has literary aspirations (his short stories, Arcadian pastoral fantasies, are remarkably like Forster's own), but is also attracted by Agnes Pembroke, the conventional but beautiful sister of a schoolmaster friend and protector, and by her handsome, athletic, ex-bully fiancé Gerald.

When a young English widow takes off on the grand tour and along the way marries a penniless Italian, her in-laws are not amused. That the marriage should fail and poor Lilia die tragically are only to be expected. But that Lilia should have had a baby -- and that the baby should be raised as an Italian! -- are matters requiring immediate correction by Philip Herriton, his dour sister Harriet, and their well-meaning friend Miss Abbott.

Lucy Honeychurch egy jómódú angol család lányaként éli unalmas hétköznapjait, mígnem nagynénjével, Charlotte-tal ellátogatnak Firenzébe. Addigi eseménytelen élete kibillen az egyensúlyából, amikor a Bertolini panzióban, ahol a szobájából pompás kilátás ugyan nem tárul elé, de megismerkedik az extravagáns Eleanor Lavish regényíróval, Mr. Beebe lelkésszel, a kíváncsi Mr. Emersonnal, illetve szenvedélyes és különc fiával, George-dzsal. Lucy és George kalandosan szövődő románca még mielőtt elkezdődhetne, véget is ér, mert a lány hazautazik. Otthon viszont azon kapja magát, hogy az intenzív, különleges olaszországi út után az Edward korabeli Anglia szürkének és örömtelennek bizonyul számára. Amikor Cecil, a fölényeskedő és sznob fiatalember eljegyzi Lucyt, a jövendőbeli fiatalasszony kitartóan tűri vőlegénye viselkedését, míg egy nap George újra felbukkan, és sikeresen Lucy közelébe férkőzik, azonban a lány maga elől is titkolja valódi érzelmeit...