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A Gorgeous Book!
This book is full of wonderful text and beautiful photos, both color and black and white.There are black and white photos of the cast members including a full page photo of Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, and Kate Winslet.

There are thirty-six lush color photographs, including locations, characters, including full page photos of Kate Winslet and Alan Rickman.

The book contains generous introduction by Linday Doran, producer of Sense and Sensibility.

The text of the entire screen play by Emma Thompson is included, interspersed with photos from the film.

There is an extensive diary of the filming of this wonderful Jane Austen novel filled with detail after detail of who the original work was painstakingly brought to screen.

Anyone who loved this story and the film production would be in heaven to own this rare and beautiful book.

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Publisher: Mountain View, Calif. : Pacific Press Pub. AssociationSubjects: Missions -- ChinaNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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A strong-willed and intelligent woman refuses to allow the pretensions of her husband's smug English family to ruin her life. Read by Emma Thompson. Movie tie-in. Book available.Amazon.com Review
Margaret Schlegel, engaged to the much older, widowed HenryWilcox, meets her intended the morning after accepting his proposaland realizes that he is a man who has lived without introspection ortrue self-knowledge. As she contemplates the state of Wilcox's soul,her remedy for what ails him has become one of the most oft-quotedpassages in literature:

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Onlyconnect the prose and the passion and both will be exalted, and humanlove will be seen at its height. Live in fragments nolonger.

Forster's 1910 novel begins as a collection of seemingly unrelatedevents--Helen's impulsive engagement to Paul Wilcox; a chance meetingbetween the Schlegel sisters and an impoverished clerk named LeonardBast at a concert; a casual conversation between the sisters and HenryWilcox in London one night. But as it moves along, these disparatethreads gradually knit into a tightly woven fabric of tragicmisunderstandings, impulsive actions, and irreparable consequences,and, eventually, connection. Though set in the early years of the 20thcentury, Howards End seems even more suited to our ownfragmented era of e-mails and anger. For readers living in such anage, the exhortation to "only connect" resonates ever moreprofoundly. --Alix Wilber ... Read more

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More Difficult to Follow and Less Satisfying
I greatly enjoyed A Passage to India and A Room With a View.Howard's End shares many of their assets - character development, period description, adventure, surprises, cultural and political awareness.However, many of the events seemed disconnected or irrelevant.None of the characters were especially lovable or heroic.The author highlights the difficulties of finding meaning (or a place) in life for a wide variety of individuals.Perhaps the disruption of the historical comforts of a settled social structure is the main message of this 1910 work. Like the other two novels, this work focuses on the frustrations of making meaningful connections with others during a time of change.

Not a vibrant portrait
`Howards End' is not E.M. Forster's best work and it should not be used as compulsory reading in schools. It is not a vibrant portrait of Edwardian English society. The characters are not wonderful. The novel is rather a boring confrontation of types (not characters), like the cold, cheating plutocrat, the independent suffragette, the bowing servant, the unemployed downtrodden or the germanophile.
`Having a mistress' or `unwelcome' engagements do not stir scandalous remarks today. They are cheered in popular newspapers with big headlines.

Technically, the novel is far from flawless. One example: the introduction, the interventions and the final act of the poor family (the Basts) are clumsy, artificial and improbable, and that all the more in a novel about `property', where Leonard Bast is an insurance clerk.

The overall atmosphere is too sentimental with many overreactions and a lot of superficial dialogues.
This is not a good introduction to E. M. Forster's work. A far better one is `Where Angels Fear to Tread.'
Only for E.M. Forster fans.

Spirit of that time
Speaking as one who wasn't there, I know, but...it seems to me that Howard's End captures perhaps more than any other book the spirit of the early 20th century. It deals with the morality, the intellectual revival and awakening of women and the community, the development of feminism, social mobility, the changing world and neo-imperialism. All these issues are approached through following 3 families over a period of years and life-changing events: the Schlegels, the Wilcoxes and the Basts. The theme for the novel, and one of its protagonist's motto is "only connect", and indeed by the end of the novel the three famiies have made an enduring connection. The lives of the characters, the time spirit and the detail make it an enjoyable read.

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just started on the book but am enjoying it immensely. i found out about it through a film review class i was taking last semester. so far, a great read.

such a beautiful and worthy dilemma
The stories of the two vastly differenct families that represent the disparities in the rapidly modernizing English society--Intellect vs. materialism, idealism vs. pragmatism, art/literature vs. buiness/wealth, and the issues about genders, relationships/marriages, death, fate, and social/economic classes.Yet the inquiries, raised by the Schlegels sisters, particularly by the more pensive one of the two, margaret, and the manner and eloquence in which she asks these questions deeply moved me both intellectually and emotionally as well.I think that she asks all the fundamental questions that are still relevant to all the thinking persons in our time, and her desire of "connecting" resonates throughout the book. The writing is beautiful, funny, and poignant. This is absolutely a lovely, lovely book. ... Read more

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Love it!
This is a GREAT book for the potty-training 2 year old! We have used it with 3 of our girls and they loved it!

A GREAT BOOK
This is a terrific book....my daughter loved the idea of her dolly going potty!

my boy has a crush on betty-lou
I didn't know this was a girl-starring book before I got it for my boy, but he loves the book anyway.My husband said he refuses to read the book to our son, but I found him reading it to him anyway.

The single most helpful book in getting my daughter started
potty training!She loved seeing her favorite Sesame Street characters in the book.The book is more geared for girls than boys.I think every girl who is potty training should have this book.

No more diapers!
I think this book is very helpful in starting the potty training process. After reading this book several times with my daughter, she wanted to copy what we read in the book.She is not fully trained yet, however, she has gone potty 6 times after reading this book. ... Read more