Howards End Author:E.M. Forester "Howards End" is a novel about England's fate. It is a story of the class war. The war is latent but actual - so actual indeed that a sword is literally drawn and a man is really killed. England herself appears in the novel in palpable form, for the story moves by symbols and not only all its characters but also an elm, a marriage, a symphony, a... more »nd a scholar's library stand for things beyond themselves. The symbol for England is the house whose name gives the title to this book. Like the plots of so many English novels, the plot of "Howards End" is about the rights of property, about a destroyed will-and-testament and rightful and wrongful heirs. It asks the questions, 'Who shall inherit England?'"« less