I only read A Room With a View. I might have given this 3.5 stars if that were a possibility. I enjoyed the characters and story line, but did find it a bit hard to get into. However, once I got into the text, I liked it. I can't imagine being Lucy Honeychurch and having so much put upon me simply because I'm a woman!

Each one of them superb. My favorite is Room With A View, followed by Where Angels Fear To Tread, then Howard's End. No one captures Edwardian society like Forster.

I didn't love any of the three novels, but I'll say I liked Howard's End the best, mostly because of the philosophical discussions among the characters. And now having read the books I do think the film adaptations of Howard's End and A Room With a View have merit. But I've never liked Helena Bonham Carter.

A lovely book that really made me want to go back to Italy.

I love a good classic and EM Forster is about my favorite author.

"A Room with a View" - one of my very favorite novels.

I have rated two of the three books 4 and one a three for an overall rating of 4. I frankly was surprised that I liked Forster. So many of the English authors are boring. Each book looks at the British middle class. Howard's End was my favorite of the three. If you've had enough Hardy or Austen, try Forster. I have reviewed each of the 3 individually. Check the individual books.

I only read Howard’s End in this copy.

Forster's works are expert explorations of class and gender differences, and the difficulty of finding true connections within societal constraints. I wish this compilation had included his masterful "A Passage to India," but one mustn't quibble. "Passage," along with "Howard's End" and "A Room With a View," have all been turned into expertly crafted movies that do justice to the original source material.

My favorite of the three is, "A Room With A View." It's been a long time since I read the others, so I don't remember how much I liked them.

These were all great but I think too much Jane Austen has conditioned me to expect happy endings. I was incredibly frustrated when the characters didn't make the obviously "correct' decisions. As I read, I was always shouting "No! Don't do it!" in my head. Of course, that's what makes E.M. Forster great and these novels so compelling. Real life is messy and full of selfish or confused people who won't or can't do the right thing--for other people or even for themselves.
Reading E.M. Forster is kind of like reading Thomas hardy-Lite. While the characters are members of the upper middle class, they are still striving for happiness and high ideals and are thwarted by Fate. The results are simply less dramatic (for the most part) and less depressing (hardly anyone dies).
So, I guess I'm saying that E.M. Forster is that unique combination of Thomas Hardy and Jane Austen. Since I love both authors, that is high praise indeed.

I discovered through this collection have no taste for Forster. I clearly recollect getting about a third of my way into the collection and then stopping to read some articles on the chauvinism of the author and rather lost interest in the endeavor.