text: The first chapter of this novel is epistolary and recounts a love affair that devolves into "telegrams and anger.
full_question: The first chapter of this novel is epistolary and recounts a love affair that devolves into "telegrams and anger." This novel analogizes the lower classes as goblins pounding in the abyss while its protagonist and her sister listen to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. A character in this novel exiles herself to Germany after a bad tip forces her impoverished friend to quit his clerking job. The protagonist of this novel refuses to break off an engagement to Henry after learning that he had an affair with Jacky and insists that he "connect" the incidents in his life. A man in this novel pushes over a bookcase with a sword, giving Leonard Bast a heart attack. In her dying hour, Ruth Wilcox signs over the deed to this novel's title estate to Margaret Schlegel. For 10 points, name this novel by E.M. Forster.
first_sentence: The first chapter of this novel is epistolary and recounts a love affair that devolves into "telegrams and anger.
raw_answer: Howards End