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Thread #12681   Message #3773330
Posted By: MGM·Lion
17-Feb-16 - 10:35 AM
Thread Name: 'Musical' Novels
Subject: RE: 'Musical' Novels
The fifth chapter of E M Forster's Howard's End (1910) takes place at a Mendelssohn - Beethoven - Brahms concert at which the characters become confused, lose things; & as a consequence form significant acquaintances, which end in tears and death, imprisonment and ruin, deception and deceit -- a sort of prolepsis of the 'purposes mistook' with which the novel abounds. Too complicated to rehearse in detail here, but clear in context and well worth reading.

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