Howards End and a Room With a View Author:E. M. Forster "Howards End", makes a country house in Hertfordshire the center and the symbol for what Lionel Trilling called a class war about who would inherit England. Commerce clashes with culture, greed with gentility. — "A Room With a View" brings home the stuffiness of upper-middle-class Edwardian society in a tremendously funny comedy that pairs a well... more »-bred young lady with a lusty railway clerk and satirizes both the clergy and the English notion of respectability.« less