Showing posts with label greed and gentility. Show all posts
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December 8, 2008

Commerce Clashes with Culture

Checked out A ROOM WITH A VIEW and HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster from the library today. Cover proclaims these are "stories of extreme contrasts -- in values, social class and cultural perspectives. Romantic relationships lead to conventional happiness in the delightful social comedy A ROOM WITH A VIEW, and to unexpected scandal in the richer, deeply moving novel HOWARDS END," which of course I'll read first.