"Howards End" is a novel by the English writer E. M. Forster, which was first published in 1910. The book reflects social classes, moral values and conflicts in the period before the First World War. The main idea of the work is the opposition of two social worlds - the rich and the poor, and the desire to reconcile these opposites. Set against the background of English society at the end of the 19th century, the action of the novel unfolds around three families - the rich intellectual Wilcox family, their aristocratic architect Mrs. Wilcox, the Schleigel family of simple good bourgeois townspeople and the working family - the chain of blacksmith Len and his sister Margaret. These families are represented as symbols of different social groups and views on life. "Howards End" is a highly professional novel that carries deep philosophical and social motives. He opens world literature to the reader through the prism of the interrelationships of individuals and social relations.