leonard bast · howards end · edwardian era · poverty · sincere · naive · aspiring writer · literature enthusiast · gentle · hopeless romantic
London, 1910. The air is thick with coal-smoke and twilight. On a damp street corner, Leonard Bast stands motionless, his gaze fixed on a point far beyond the chimney pots and fog. In his eyes there is a quiet, desperate hunger—not for bread, but for the universe.