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A Room with a View

By E.M. Forster

By E.M. Forster

By E.M. Forster

By E.M. Forster

By E.M. Forster

By E.M. Forster

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Oct 23, 1989 | ISBN 9780679724766

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    About A Room with a View

    First published in 1908, A Room with a View portrays the love of a British woman for an expatriate living in Italy. 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. 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.”

    About A Room with a View

    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.

    About A Room with a View

    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 determine 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.

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    About E.M. Forster

    Edward Morgan Forster was born on January 1, 1879, in London and was raised from infancy by his mother and paternal aunts after his father’s death. Forster’s boyhood experiences at the Tonbridge School, Kent, were an unpleasant contrast to the… More about E.M. Forster

    About E.M. Forster

    Edward Morgan Forster was born on January 1, 1879, in London and was raised from infancy by his mother and paternal aunts after his father’s death. Forster’s boyhood experiences at the Tonbridge School, Kent, were an unpleasant contrast to the… More about E.M. Forster

    About E.M. Forster

    Edward Morgan Forster was born on January 1, 1879, in London and was raised from infancy by his mother and paternal aunts after his father’s death. Forster’s boyhood experiences at the Tonbridge School, Kent, were an unpleasant contrast to the… More about E.M. Forster

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction | Romance

    Paperback | $11.00
    Published by Vintage
    Oct 23, 1989 | 256 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679724766

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction | Romance

    Mass Market Paperback | $5.95
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Jul 01, 1988 | 240 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780553213232

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction | Romance

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Dec 26, 2006 | 240 Pages | ISBN 9780553903317

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