This author claimed that a poor joke found in a letter from Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra evoked "the whinnying of harpies." In one of this author's short stories, Kuno 
This author claimed that a poor joke found in a letter from Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra evoked "the whinnying of harpies." In one of this author's short stories, Kuno journeys to see his mother Vashti in a futuristic society where human contact is very rare. This author of "The Machine Stops" wrote a novel in which Charles beats a man with the flat of a sword, causing a heart attack and the death of that man, Leonard Bast. In another of his novels, Cyril Fielding marries the daughter of Mrs. Moore and another character is accused of sexual assault after a trip to the Marabar Caves. For 10 points, name this author who wrote about Helen and Margaret Schlegel in Howards End and created Dr. Aziz and Adela Quested in A Passage to India.
This author claimed that a poor joke found in a letter from Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra evoked "the whinnying of harpies."
Edward Morgan Forster