A Room With a View Howards End Maurice Author:E. M. Forster This book contains three novels. E.M. Forster, born in England in 1879, is one to a very few modern novelists whose works are as loved as they are admired. Gracefully and dramatically they combine wit, a love of nature, astute social criticism, and a complex and sympathetic understanding of human nature In these three novels Forster explores a p... more »erennial theme-the contradictory demands of passion and civilization and the difficulties of staying true to the best ideals of each.« less