A Room with a View (Penguin Classics)

This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young English woman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted to this man, George Emerson--who is entirely unsuitable and whose father just may be a Socialist--Lucy is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires. Back in England she is courted by a more acceptable, if stifling, suitor, and soon realizes she must make a startling decision that will decide the course of her future: she is forced to choose between convention and passion. The enduring delight of this tale of romantic intrigue is rooted in Forster's colorful characters, including outrageous spinsters, pompous clergymen and outspoken patriots. Written in 1908, A Room With A View is one of E.M. Forster's earliest and most celebrated works.

sheila Hancock Stars In A Bbc Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation Of E. M. Forster's Glorious Tale Of Love In Italy And England. Lucy Honeychurch Is An Innocent Abroad. Under The Care Of Her Well-meaning But Infuriating Chaperon, Cousin Charlotte, She Is Completing The Final Part Of A Conventional Well-bred English Upbringing - The Grand Tour. But The Sensual Atmosphere Of The Florentine Countryside Exercises A Strange Power Over Lucy's Half-formed And Untested Character, As Do Her Fellow Guests At The Pension Bertolini.back Home In Surrey, Lucy Fights The Passions Stirred In Her By Italy And Becomes Very Respectably Engaged To The Cultured Cecil Vyse. It Promises To Be A Conventional Life Until, One Day, Florence And All Its Accompanying Emotion Resurfaces In The Form Of Young George Emerson. Torn Between Society's Expectations And The Stirrings Of Her Quickening Heart, Lucy Struggles With Her Dilemma Until Her Warring Emotions Reach An Explosive Climax. E.m. Forster's Portrayal Of...

This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England.A charming young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted to this man, George Emerson—who is entirely unsuitable and whose father just may be a Socialist—Lucy is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires. Back in England, she is courted by a more acceptable, if stifling, suitor and soon realizes she must make a startling decision that will decide the course of her future: she is forced to choose between convention and passion. The enduring delight of this tale of romantic intrigue is rooted in Forster's colorful characters, including outrageous spinsters, pompous clergymen, and outspoken patriots. Written in 1908, A Room with a View is one of E. M. Forster's earliest and most celebrated works.

When Lucy Honeychurch, visiting Italy, mentions the lack of a view from her room, George Emerson and his father offer to swap. But Lucy's suspicions that the Emersons are the wrong sort of people seem confirmed when George impulsively kisses her during a picnic in the Tuscan countryside. Soon, however, thoughts of that kiss have Lucy questioning her engagement to boorish, if utterly acceptable, Cecil Vyse. All in all, the situation presents quite a muddle for a young woman who wishes to be absolutely truthful—even when she's lying to herself about the most important aspects of life and love.

E.M. Forster's brilliant comedy of manners shines a gently ironic light on the attitudes and customs of the British middle class at the beginning of the 20th century.

SUMMARY: The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: British/ Italy/ Fiction; Young women/ Fiction; Florence (Italy); England; British; Young women; Humorous stories; England - Fiction; British - Italy; Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / General; Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Humorous; Fiction / Literary; Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language; Foreign Language Study / Japanese; History / Europe / Italy; Language Arts Literary,Fiction,Criticism,Literature - Classics,Classics,Literature: Classics Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her, until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Bertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney Signora, curious Mr Emerson and, most of all, his passionate son George. Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy and the repressed morals of Edwardian England, personified in her terminally dull fiancé Cecil Vyse. Will she ever learn to follow her own heart? Visiting Italy with her prim and proper cousin Charlotte as a chaperone, Lucy Honeychurch meets the unconventional lower-class Mr. Emerson and his son, George. Upon her return to England she becomes engaged to the supercilious Cecil Vyse, but finds herself increasingly torn between the expectations of the world in which she moves and the passionate yearnings of her heart. As Forster writes, "You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you." More than a love story, A Room With a View is a perceptive examination of class structure and a penetrating social comedy. Set in the early 1900's. Tells the story of the coming of age of Lucy Honeychurch. Longing to burst free from the repression of British upper class manners and mores, she must wrestle with her inner romantic longings to choose between the passionate George and the priggish but socially suitable Cecil