Edward Morgan Forster was an English author, best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924).
In sun-drenched Florence and the rigid drawing-rooms of Edwardian England, Lucy Honeychurch navigates the intoxicating pull of unconventional love against the stifling expectations of her class, choosing between societal approval and the awakening of her own heart.
The traditional Wilcoxes clash with the progressive Schlegels over the Howards End estate, as a deathbed wish, a secret, and the struggles of the Basts intertwine, revealing the romantic and difficult beauty of life's conflicts between old and new.
In a society that demands conformity, a young man's journey of unrequited love becomes a defiant embrace of his true sexual identity, risking everything for the freedom to love outside the lines of Edwardian expectation.
An English family's attempt to 'rescue' an orphaned baby from its Italian father exposes their cultural biases and the tragic results of colonial-era meddling.
In a future where humanity lives isolated beneath the earth, dependent on a Machine for every need, a mother and son face the terrifying consequences when the Machine begins to fail.