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Tracklist: 1. Main Title: Howards End (Percy Grainger's Bridal Lullaby) 2. Helen and Paul Call it Off 3. Music and Meaning 4. The Basts/Spring Landscape 5. Tango at Simpson's-in-the-Strand 6. An Unexpected Proposal 7. Margaret's Arrival at Howards End (Percy Grainger's Bridal Lullaby) 8. At a Castle in Shropshire 9. Moving In 10. On the River 11. The Sisters' Reconciliation 12. Leonard's Death 13. Return to Howards End 14. End Credits (Percy Grainger's Mock Morris)

Tracklist: 1. Main Title: Howards End (Percy Grainger's Bridal Lullaby) 2. Helen and Paul Call it Off 3. Music and Meaning 4. The Basts/Spring Landscape 5. Tango at Simpson's-in-the-Strand 6. An Unexpected Proposal 7. Margaret's Arrival at Howards End (Percy Grainger's Bridal Lullaby) 8. At a Castle in Shropshire 9. Moving In 10. On the River 11. The Sisters' Reconciliation 12. Leonard's Death 13. Return to Howards End 14. End Credits (Percy Grainger's Mock Morris)

Tracklist: 1. Main Title: Howards End (Percy Grainger's Bridal Lullaby) 2. Helen and Paul Call it Off 3. Music and Meaning 4. The Basts/Spring Landscape 5. Tango at Simpson's-in-the-Strand 6. An Unexpected Proposal 7. Margaret's Arrival at Howards End (Percy Grainger's Bridal Lullaby) 8. At a Castle in Shropshire 9. Moving In 10. On the River 11. The Sisters' Reconciliation 12. Leonard's Death 13. Return to Howards End 14. End Credits (Percy Grainger's Mock Morris)

Tracklist: 1. Main Title: Howards End (Percy Grainger's Bridal Lullaby) 2. Helen and Paul Call it Off 3. Music and Meaning 4. The Basts/Spring Landscape 5. Tango at Simpson's-in-the-Strand 6. An Unexpected Proposal 7. Margaret's Arrival at Howards End (Percy Grainger's Bridal Lullaby) 8. At a Castle in Shropshire 9. Moving In 10. On the River 11. The Sisters' Reconciliation 12. Leonard's Death 13. Return to Howards End 14. End Credits (Percy Grainger's Mock Morris)

Tracklist: 1. Main Title: Howards End (Percy Grainger's Bridal Lullaby) 2. Helen and Paul Call it Off 3. Music and Meaning 4. The Basts/Spring Landscape 5. Tango at Simpson's-in-the-Strand 6. An Unexpected Proposal 7. Margaret's Arrival at Howards End (Percy Grainger's Bridal Lullaby) 8. At a Castle in Shropshire 9. Moving In 10. On the River 11. The Sisters' Reconciliation 12. Leonard's Death 13. Return to Howards End 14. End Credits (Percy Grainger's Mock Morris)

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LibriVox recording of Howards End (version 3) by E. M. Forster. Read in English by Lynne T; Farnood; Kathleen Moore; Brian Keenan; Kurt; Michelle Tan; John; Beth Thomas; DrPGould Considered Forster's masterpiece and one of the best books of the 20th century, Howards End tackles social conventions of the Edwardian era. The story focuses on three families in England at the beginning of the 20th century: the Wilcoxes, rich capitalists with a fortune made in the colonies; the half-German Schlegel siblings (Margaret, Helen, and Tibby), whose cultural pursuits have much in common with the Bloomsbury Group; and the Basts, an impoverished young couple from a lower-class background. The idealistic, intelligent Schlegel sisters seek to help the struggling Basts and to rid the Wilcoxes of some of their deep-seated social and economic prejudices. - Summary by Lynne Thompson For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . M4B Audiobook 01-22 (188MB) M4B Audiobook 23-44 (147MB)

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About this movie Title: Howards End (1992) Directed by: James Ivory Date of birth: 7 June 1928, Berkeley, California, U.S. Writing credits: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, E. M. Forster Music: Richard Robbins, Percy Grainger Year: 1992 Country: United Kingdom | Japan Language: English Color: Color Runtime: 142 min. Synopsis In 1910s London, Helen Schlegel briefly gets engaged to Paul Wilcox during a moment of passion. Later, her sister Margaret befriends Paul’s mother Ruth. Ruth unexpectedly bequeaths Margaret the family house, but the will goes missing after her death. However, Ruth’s widower soon falls for Margaret. Howards End is not currently showing on MUBI. Instead, watch Quartet, also directed by James Ivory. Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Emma Thompson, James Wilby, Samuel West, Jemma Redgrave, Prunella Scales, Samuel West, Susie Lindeman, Nicola Duffett, Mark Payton, Barbara Hicks

About this movie Title: Howards End (1992) Directed by: James Ivory Date of birth: 7 June 1928, Berkeley, California, U.S. Writing credits: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, E. M. Forster Music: Richard Robbins, Percy Grainger Year: 1992 Country: United Kingdom | Japan Language: English Color: Color Runtime: 142 min. Synopsis In 1910s London, Helen Schlegel briefly gets engaged to Paul Wilcox during a moment of passion. Later, her sister Margaret befriends Paul’s mother Ruth. Ruth unexpectedly bequeaths Margaret the family house, but the will goes missing after her death. However, Ruth’s widower soon falls for Margaret. Howards End is not currently showing on MUBI. Instead, watch Quartet, also directed by James Ivory. Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Emma Thompson, James Wilby, Samuel West, Jemma Redgrave, Prunella Scales, Samuel West, Susie Lindeman, Nicola Duffett, Mark Payton, Barbara Hicks

About this movie Title: Howards End (1992) Directed by: James Ivory Date of birth: 7 June 1928, Berkeley, California, U.S. Writing credits: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, E. M. Forster Music: Richard Robbins, Percy Grainger Year: 1992 Country: United Kingdom | Japan Language: English Color: Color Runtime: 142 min. Synopsis In 1910s London, Helen Schlegel briefly gets engaged to Paul Wilcox during a moment of passion. Later, her sister Margaret befriends Paul’s mother Ruth. Ruth unexpectedly bequeaths Margaret the family house, but the will goes missing after her death. However, Ruth’s widower soon falls for Margaret. Howards End is not currently showing on MUBI. Instead, watch Quartet, also directed by James Ivory. Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Emma Thompson, James Wilby, Samuel West, Jemma Redgrave, Prunella Scales, Samuel West, Susie Lindeman, Nicola Duffett, Mark Payton, Barbara Hicks

A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.

Book from Project Gutenberg: Howards End Library of Congress Classification: PR

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The Schlegels frequently encounter the Wilcoxes. The youngest, Helen, is rejected by the younger Wilcox brother, Paul. The eldest, Margaret, becomes friends with his mother Ruth Wilcox. Ruth’s most prized personal possession is her family house at Howards End. She wishes that Margaret could live there, as she feels that it might be in good hands with her. Ruth’s own husband and children do not value the house and its rich history, because such abstractions, while being very dear to Margaret, are lost to them. As she is terminally ill, and Margaret and her family are about to be evicted from their London home by a developer, Ruth bequeaths the cottage to Margaret in a handwritten note found among her effects when she dies, causing great consternation among the Wilcoxes. Mrs Wilcox’s widowed husband Henry and his children burn the note without telling Margaret about her inheritance. However, over the course of several years, Margaret becomes friends with Henry Wilcox and eventually marries him. The more free-spirited Margaret tries to get Henry to open up more, to little effect. Henry’s elder son Charles and his wife try to keep Margaret from taking possession of Howards End. (Summary from Wikipedia) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. Download M4B Part 1 (186MB) Download M4B Part 2 (152MB)

Tracklist: 1. Funeral 2. Opening 3. Seaside 4. They're Starving 5. Appalling Umbrella 6. Night Walk 7. She's Made a Mistake 8. Mistress 9. Innsbruck 10. Empty House 11. Miscommunication 12. Bast Appears 13. Abyss 14. Christmas Shopping 15. I Know 16. That's Decided 17. Bast's Death 18. In a Mist 19. It's Delightful 20. My Dearest Boy 21. Scruples 22. Books

Tracklist: Disc 1: 1. O Mio Babbino Caro - Giacomo Puccini 2. Pensione Bertollini 3. Lucy, Charlotte and Miss Lavish See the City 4. In the Piazza Signoria 5. Embankment 6. Phaeton and Persephone 7. Chi il Bel Sogno Di Doretta - Giacomo Puccini 8. Storm 9. Home, and the Betrothal 10. Sacred Lake 11. Allan Sisters 12. In the National Gallery 13. Windy Corner 14. Habanera 15. Broken Engagement 16. Return to Florence 17. End Titles Disc 2: 1. Prologue: The Lesson 2. At the Pianola 3. Two Letters 4. In Greece / The Wedding 5. Miserere - Gregorio Allegri 6. Pendersleigh in Gloom 7. The Café Royale 8. Miss Edna Mae's Surprise / The Train 9. The Moonlit Night 10. In the Renault 11. Alec's Farewell 12. The Boathouse 13. Clive and Anne 14. End Titles Disc 3: 1. Main Title: Howards End (Percy Grainger's Bridal Lullaby) 2. Helen and Paul Call it Off 3. Music and Meaning 4. The Basts/Spring Landscape 5. Tango at Simpson's-in-the-Strand 6. An Unexpected Proposal 7. Margaret's Arrival at Howards End (Percy Grainger's Bridal Lullaby) 8. At a Castle in Shropshire 9. Moving In 10. On the River 11. The Sisters' Reconciliation 12. Leonard's Death 13. Return to Howards End 14. End Credits (Percy Grainger's Mock Morris)

Tracklist: Disc 1: 1. O Mio Babbino Caro - Giacomo Puccini 2. Pensione Bertollini 3. Lucy, Charlotte and Miss Lavish See the City 4. In the Piazza Signoria 5. Embankment 6. Phaeton and Persephone 7. Chi il Bel Sogno Di Doretta - Giacomo Puccini 8. Storm 9. Home, and the Betrothal 10. Sacred Lake 11. Allan Sisters 12. In the National Gallery 13. Windy Corner 14. Habanera 15. Broken Engagement 16. Return to Florence 17. End Titles Disc 2: 1. Prologue: The Lesson 2. At the Pianola 3. Two Letters 4. In Greece / The Wedding 5. Miserere - Gregorio Allegri 6. Pendersleigh in Gloom 7. The Café Royale 8. Miss Edna Mae's Surprise / The Train 9. The Moonlit Night 10. In the Renault 11. Alec's Farewell 12. The Boathouse 13. Clive and Anne 14. End Titles Disc 3: 1. Main Title: Howards End (Percy Grainger's Bridal Lullaby) 2. Helen and Paul Call it Off 3. Music and Meaning 4. The Basts/Spring Landscape 5. Tango at Simpson's-in-the-Strand 6. An Unexpected Proposal 7. Margaret's Arrival at Howards End (Percy Grainger's Bridal Lullaby) 8. At a Castle in Shropshire 9. Moving In 10. On the River 11. The Sisters' Reconciliation 12. Leonard's Death 13. Return to Howards End 14. End Credits (Percy Grainger's Mock Morris)

Tracklist: Disc 1: 1. O Mio Babbino Caro - Giacomo Puccini 2. Pensione Bertollini 3. Lucy, Charlotte and Miss Lavish See the City 4. In the Piazza Signoria 5. Embankment 6. Phaeton and Persephone 7. Chi il Bel Sogno Di Doretta - Giacomo Puccini 8. Storm 9. Home, and the Betrothal 10. Sacred Lake 11. Allan Sisters 12. In the National Gallery 13. Windy Corner 14. Habanera 15. Broken Engagement 16. Return to Florence 17. End Titles Disc 2: 1. Prologue: The Lesson 2. At the Pianola 3. Two Letters 4. In Greece / The Wedding 5. Miserere - Gregorio Allegri 6. Pendersleigh in Gloom 7. The Café Royale 8. Miss Edna Mae's Surprise / The Train 9. The Moonlit Night 10. In the Renault 11. Alec's Farewell 12. The Boathouse 13. Clive and Anne 14. End Titles Disc 3: 1. Main Title: Howards End (Percy Grainger's Bridal Lullaby) 2. Helen and Paul Call it Off 3. Music and Meaning 4. The Basts/Spring Landscape 5. Tango at Simpson's-in-the-Strand 6. An Unexpected Proposal 7. Margaret's Arrival at Howards End (Percy Grainger's Bridal Lullaby) 8. At a Castle in Shropshire 9. Moving In 10. On the River 11. The Sisters' Reconciliation 12. Leonard's Death 13. Return to Howards End 14. End Credits (Percy Grainger's Mock Morris)

This is a LibriVox recording of Howards End by E. M. Forster. Read by Elizabeth Klett. The book is about three families in England at the beginning of the twentieth century. The three families represent different gradations of the Edwardian middle class: the Wilcoxes, who are rich capitalists with a fortune made in the Colonies; the half-German Schlegel siblings (Margaret, Tibby, and Helen), who represent the intellectual bourgeoisie and have a lot in common with the real-life Bloomsbury Group; and the Basts, a couple who are struggling members of the lower-middle class. The Schlegel sisters try to help the poor Basts and try to make the Wilcoxes less prejudiced. The motto of the book is “Only connect…” (summary from Wikipedia) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org . Download M4B Part 1 (192MB) Download M4B Part 2 (144MB)

This is a LibriVox recording of Howards End by E. M. Forster. Read by Elizabeth Klett. The book is about three families in England at the beginning of the twentieth century. The three families represent different gradations of the Edwardian middle class: the Wilcoxes, who are rich capitalists with a fortune made in the Colonies; the half-German Schlegel siblings (Margaret, Tibby, and Helen), who represent the intellectual bourgeoisie and have a lot in common with the real-life Bloomsbury Group; and the Basts, a couple who are struggling members of the lower-middle class. The Schlegel sisters try to help the poor Basts and try to make the Wilcoxes less prejudiced. The motto of the book is “Only connect…” (summary from Wikipedia) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org . Download M4B Part 1 (192MB) Download M4B Part 2 (144MB)

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393 p. 20 cm

393 p. 20 cm

393 p. 20 cm

393 p. 20 cm

Tracklist: 1. Funeral 2. Opening 3. Seaside 4. They're Starving 5. Appalling Umbrella 6. Night Walk 7. She's Made A Mistake 8. Mistress 9. Innsbruck 10. Empty House 11. Miscommunication 12. Bast Appears 13. Abyss 14. Christmas Shopping 15. I Know 16. That's Decided 17. Bast's Death 18. In A Mist 19. It's Delightful 20. My Dearest Boy 21. Scruples 22. Books

Tracklist: 1. Funeral 2. Opening 3. Seaside 4. They're Starving 5. Appalling Umbrella 6. Night Walk 7. She's Made A Mistake 8. Mistress 9. Innsbruck 10. Empty House 11. Miscommunication 12. Bast Appears 13. Abyss 14. Christmas Shopping 15. I Know 16. That's Decided 17. Bast's Death 18. In A Mist 19. It's Delightful 20. My Dearest Boy 21. Scruples 22. Books

Tracklist: 1. Funeral 2. Opening 3. Seaside 4. They're Starving 5. Appalling Umbrella 6. Night Walk 7. She's Made A Mistake 8. Mistress 9. Innsbruck 10. Empty House 11. Miscommunication 12. Bast Appears 13. Abyss 14. Christmas Shopping 15. I Know 16. That's Decided 17. Bast's Death 18. In A Mist 19. It's Delightful 20. My Dearest Boy 21. Scruples 22. Books

Tracklist: 1. Funeral 2. Opening 3. Seaside 4. They're Starving 5. Appalling Umbrella 6. Night Walk 7. She's Made A Mistake 8. Mistress 9. Innsbruck 10. Empty House 11. Miscommunication 12. Bast Appears 13. Abyss 14. Christmas Shopping 15. I Know 16. That's Decided 17. Bast's Death 18. In A Mist 19. It's Delightful 20. My Dearest Boy 21. Scruples 22. Books

Tracklist: 1. Funeral 2. Opening 3. Seaside 4. They're Starving 5. Appalling Umbrella 6. Night Walk 7. She's Made A Mistake 8. Mistress 9. Innsbruck 10. Empty House 11. Miscommunication 12. Bast Appears 13. Abyss 14. Christmas Shopping 15. I Know 16. That's Decided 17. Bast's Death 18. In A Mist 19. It's Delightful 20. My Dearest Boy 21. Scruples 22. Books

Tracklist: 1. Funeral 2. Opening 3. Seaside 4. They're Starving 5. Appalling Umbrella 6. Night Walk 7. She's Made A Mistake 8. Mistress 9. Innsbruck 10. Empty House 11. Miscommunication 12. Bast Appears 13. Abyss 14. Christmas Shopping 15. I Know 16. That's Decided 17. Bast's Death 18. In A Mist 19. It's Delightful 20. My Dearest Boy 21. Scruples 22. Books

Tracklist: 1. Funeral 2. Opening 3. Seaside 4. They're Starving 5. Appalling Umbrella 6. Night Walk 7. She's Made A Mistake 8. Mistress 9. Innsbruck 10. Empty House 11. Miscommunication 12. Bast Appears 13. Abyss 14. Christmas Shopping 15. I Know 16. That's Decided 17. Bast's Death 18. In A Mist 19. It's Delightful 20. My Dearest Boy 21. Scruples 22. Books

Tracklist: 1. Funeral 2. Opening 3. Seaside 4. They're Starving 5. Appalling Umbrella 6. Night Walk 7. She's Made A Mistake 8. Mistress 9. Innsbruck 10. Empty House 11. Miscommunication 12. Bast Appears 13. Abyss 14. Christmas Shopping 15. I Know 16. That's Decided 17. Bast's Death 18. In A Mist 19. It's Delightful 20. My Dearest Boy 21. Scruples 22. Books

Tracklist: 1. Funeral 2. Opening 3. Seaside 4. They're Starving 5. Appalling Umbrella 6. Night Walk 7. She's Made A Mistake 8. Mistress 9. Innsbruck 10. Empty House 11. Miscommunication 12. Bast Appears 13. Abyss 14. Christmas Shopping 15. I Know 16. That's Decided 17. Bast's Death 18. In A Mist 19. It's Delightful 20. My Dearest Boy 21. Scruples 22. Books

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A room with a view -- Howards end -- Maurice

A room with a view -- Howards end -- Maurice

1Room with a View

By E. M. Forster

When Lucy Honeychurch travels to Italy with her cousin, she meets George Emerson, a bohemian and an atheist who falls in love with her. Upon her return to England, she is forced to choose between free-spirited George and her more conventional fiancé, Cecil Vyse. The story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. (Summary from Wikipedia)

2Howards End

By E. M. Forster

The book is about three families in England at the beginning of the twentieth century. The three families represent different gradations of the Edwardian middle class: the Wilcoxes, who are rich capitalists with a fortune made in the Colonies; the half-German Schlegel siblings (Margaret, Tibby, and Helen), who represent the intellectual bourgeoisie and have a lot in common with the real-life Bloomsbury Group; and the Basts, a couple who are struggling members of the lower-middle class. The Schlegel sisters try to help the poor Basts and try to make the Wilcoxes less prejudiced. The motto of the book is "Only connect..."

3Howards End (version 2)

By E. M. Forster

The Schlegels frequently encounter the Wilcoxes. The youngest, Helen, is rejected by the younger Wilcox brother, Paul. The eldest, Margaret, becomes friends with his mother Ruth Wilcox. Ruth's most prized personal possession is her family house at Howards End. She wishes that Margaret could live there, as she feels that it might be in good hands with her. Ruth's own husband and children do not value the house and its rich history, because such abstractions, while being very dear to Margaret, are lost to them. As she is terminally ill, and Margaret and her family are about to be evicted from their London home by a developer, Ruth bequeaths the cottage to Margaret in a handwritten note found among her effects when she dies, causing great consternation among the Wilcoxes. Mrs Wilcox's widowed husband Henry and his children burn the note without telling Margaret about her inheritance. However, over the course of several years, Margaret becomes friends with Henry Wilcox and eventually marries him. The more free-spirited Margaret tries to get Henry to open up more, to little effect. Henry's elder son Charles and his wife try to keep Margaret from taking possession of Howards End. (Summary from Wikipedia)

The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual lives in isolation in a 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Most humans welcome this development, as they are skeptical and fearful of first-hand experience. People forget that humans created the Machine, and treat it as a mystical entity whose needs supersede their own. Those who do not accept the deity of the Machine are viewed as 'unmechanical' and are threatened with "Homelessness". Eventually, the Machine apocalyptically collapses, and the civilization of the Machine comes to an end. (Wikipedia)<br /><br />Comment by book coordinator: A condensed rapidfire of details and ideas imagining a dystopian world. Good thing he made it a short story. And the world he describes feels so appalling, although we are good on the way to be where Forster imagined us - shocker. So imaginative for 1909! Staying at home with the telly and internet and instant messaging and videoconferencing, google and pizza delivery and all flats and all cities look alike. And the loss of Patience! Damn this is good and so true - with one big exception the many buttons for all the machines functions. But how would Forster know of digital interfaces? That would have been too much to foresee.

5Where Angels Fear to Tread

By E. M. Forster

On a journey to Tuscany with her young friend and traveling companion Caroline Abbott, widowed Lilia Herriton falls in love with both Italy and a handsome Italian much younger than herself, and decides to stay. Furious, her dead husband's family send Lilia's brother-in-law to Italy to prevent a misalliance, but he arrives too late. Lilia marries the Italian and in due course becomes pregnant again. When she dies giving birth to her child, the Herritons consider it both their right and their duty to travel to Monteriano to obtain custody of the infant so that he can be raised as an Englishman. (Summary from Wikipedia)

6Longest Journey

By E. M. Forster

Frederick Elliot is a student at early 20th century Cambridge, a university that seems like paradise to him, amongst bright if cynical companions, when he receives a visit from two friends, an engaged young woman, Agnes Pembroke, and her older brother, Herbert. The Pembrokes are Rickie’s only friends from home. An orphan who grew up living with cousins, he was sent to a public (boarding) school where he was shunned and bullied because of his lame foot, an inherited weakness, and frail body. Agnes, as it happens, is engaged to Gerald, now in the army, who was one of the sturdy youths who bullied Rickie at school. Rickie is not brilliant at argument, but he is intensely responsive to poetry and art, and is accepted within a circle of philosophical and intellectual fellow-students led by a brilliant but especially cynical aspiring philosopher, Stuart Ansell, who refuses, when he is introduced to her, even to acknowledge that Agnes exists. (from Wikipedia)

Published in 1909, this science fiction short story takes place in a future where mankind, seemingly no longer able to survive on earth's surface, exists in a vast underground civilization known as "The Machine". Each individual lives in an isolated, fully-automated cell-like room, connected to global information and communication systems, but cut off from all direct experience. The narrative focuses on Vashti, an "advanced" mother whose total dependence upon The Machine has led her (like most others) to increasingly reverence and even worship it; and her "untechnological" son, Kuno, who has begun to deny The Machine's omnipotence and even seeks to escape if possible. Kuno's radical views are validated as the The Machine's systems begin to malfunction and eventually fail completely.<br /><br />The story has proved to be far ahead of its time, with remarkably accurate predictions of modern technologies, and paints a chilling picture of over-dependence on them. This recording marks the 100th anniversary of the original publishing. (Summary by Jerome Lawsen)

8Room with a View (version 2)

By E. M. Forster

The 1908 novel A Room With a View is the story of Lucy Honeychurch, a young English girl traveling to Italy for the first time. While staying in Florence, Lucy meets the unconventional George Emerson, with whom she shares a single passionate kiss, much to the horror of her chaperone, her spinsterish cousin Charlotte. Back in England, Lucy finds she must choose between George and her rather stuffy fiance Cecil Vyse. Forster's wonderfully comic romance satirizes turn-of-the-century English culture (as did his other major novel of the period, Howards End). (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928. After being voted one of the best novellas up to 1965, it was included that same year in the populist anthology Modern Short Stories. The story describes a world in which most of the human population has lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual now lives in isolation below ground in a standard 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. ( Summary by Wikipedia )