A Room with a View

Name: A Room with a View
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
SKU: 9780241951484
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By E M Forster

Series: Penguin Essentials

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A Room with a View follows Lucy Honeychurch, a young Englishwoman, as she embarks on a journey of self-discovery during her travels to Italy. Amidst the picturesque backdrop, Lucy encounters a host of intriguing characters who challenge her perceptions and societal expectations. Torn between conventional life and the allure of authentic passion, her struggle culminates in life-altering decisions about love and freedom.
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You might enjoy this novel if you appreciate charming tales of romance and self-discovery set against the backdrop of early 20th-century Europe. It combines wit and social commentary, exploring themes of personal freedom and societal expectations. With vivid descriptions of the Italian countryside and English society, it's a delightful exploration of contrasts and connections.

A Room with a View

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. Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy and the repressed morals of Victorian England, personified in her terminally dull fiance Cecil Vyse.

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A delightfully satiric comedy of manners and an immensely satisfying love story.

'You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you . . .'

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?

A Room with a View is a sunny, brilliantly witty comedy of manners.

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A Room with a View has been praised for its insightful exploration of human nature and social conventions. The novel offers a unique perspective on the possibilities of fiction, as noted by Zadie Smith, and its depth of implication sets it apart from many other works, suggesting its timeless appeal and enduring readability.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241951484

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 April 2011

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 111.0mm

Height: 181.0mm

Weight: 127g

Pages: 224

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E.M. Forster E.M. Forster Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Penguin Books Series: Penguin Essentials

About the Author

Edward Morgan Forster was born in London in 1879. He studied at King's College, Cambridge. He wrote six novels, four of which appeared before the First World War, Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), The Longest Journey (1907), A Room with a View (1908) and Howard's End (1910). An interval of fourteen years elapsed before he published A Passage to India. It won both the Prix Femina Vie Heuruse and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He last novel, Maurice, was published posthumously in 1971. He also published two volumes of short stories and a number of non-fiction books. E. M. Forster died in 1970.