Room with a View - Hardcover

FORSTER E M

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1444736280 ISBN 13: 9781444736281

Publisher: LITTLE BROWN US, 2011

Synopsis

Overhearing the very proper Miss Bartlett and Lucy Honeychurch bemoaning the lack of a view from their rooms in a Florentine pensione, Mr Emerson and his son George offer to swap: a social gaffe that leads to tears, love and muddle. (1908)

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A Room With a View portrays the love of a British woman for an expatriate living in Italy, a country which to Forster represents the forces of true passion. Caught up in a world of social snobbery, Forster's heroine, Lucy Honeychurch, finds herself constrained by the claustrophobic influence of her British guardians, who encourage her to take up with a well-connected boor. When she regrets that her hotel room has no view, a member of the lower class offers to trade rooms with her. Lucy becomes caught in a struggle between her own emotions and social conventions. In the end, however, Lucy takes control of her own fate and finds love with a man whose free spirit reminds her of a "room with a view".

There are some writers whose work is especially suitable for out-loud reading and E.M. Forster is one. His voices enter the ear with such a delicate balance of force and refinement that listeners are immediately enchanted.

About this edition

• Publisher: LITTLE BROWN US
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1444736280
• ISBN 13: 9781444736281
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 278