

His humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect".

He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster, was an novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Edward Morgan Forster, generally published as E.M.
