Howards End cover art

Howards End

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Howards End

By: E. M. Forster
Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £30.99

Buy Now for £30.99

About this listen

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 intersect at an estate called Howards End.

There, the lives of three families become entangled. The Wilcoxes, who own the estate, are a wealthy family who made their fortune in the American colonies. The Schlegel siblings - Margaret, Helen, and Tibby - are lively socialites whose spirited and active lifestyles are representative of the intellectual bourgeoisie. And the Basts are a young couple from a lower-class background who are struggling to survive. As chance brings them together, societal conventions come into question as does the ownership of Howards End.

Through the fate of the estate - as well as the lives of the families who are affiliated with it - Forster creates a brilliant parallel to the fate of English society itself.

Public Domain (P)2018 Dreamscape Media, LLC Classics Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction

Listeners also enjoyed...

 A Room with a View cover art
Most relevant  
Absolutely love this reading, totally immersive and that's what you want - a narrator who adds to and doesn't distract from the story. Captivating and a lovely way to revisit this favourite. 100% recommended.

Lovely rendition of Forster's classic

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
if you have ever loved a house, or a garden or even a piece of furniture then this book will chime with you. the drama is only a sub theme around what is really the subject, how places can heal.

Like a lovely bath in the Edwardian Era.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I guess most people are familiar with the story, I am, from the TV and film adaptations. I wanted to get the unabridged full fat version.
That was delivered, but to me the performance was lightweight. The reader used seemingly her own natural voice which was a little to 21st Century Estuary English for me. I realise a stilted RP might be equally irritating, but women of the at the time of the book just wouldn't sound like they were ordering a "flat whte to go" in Shoreditch café.
The two sisters "voices" were indistinguishable and the masculine characters weak too.
it didn't ruin the book, but I wish a less paperback romance/reading to children voice had been adopted.

Lightweight Reading

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.