A Room with a View
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (609 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1523686332 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 196 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A Book With a Heart A ROOM WITH A VIEW depicts a young Englishwoman's adventure trying to come to grips with the conflict between her desires and society's expectations. Lucy Honeychurch is a well-bred young middle class girl on holiday in radiant Florence. She comes from a family overconcerned with respectability and is therefo. "A Personal Awakening a Century Ago - Still a Valid Lesson" according to Ford Ka. This charming little novel which has recently celebrated its centennary can be easily put down as a period piece. E M Forster foresaw it already in his note which he added to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first edition. Yet a prospective reader would be most wrong to disregard it. There is a lesson . Rachel Hillen said "But are they the right sort of peo" zzzz. I should start out by saying I am NOT a fan of Jane Austen or the whole "comedy of manners" oeuvre. The only book in that genre that I've ever really liked is The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton which takes a decidedly darker turn than Austen or Forster. Needless to say that this book, while only about 150 pa
My first intimation of the possibilities of fiction -- Zadie Smith He says, and even more implies, things that no other novelist does, and we can go on reading Forster indefinitely The Times . I loved it
Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. Beebe, persuades the pair to accept the offer, assuring Miss Bartlett that Mr. However, another guest at the pension, an Anglican clergyman named Mr. M. ForsterA Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. This behaviour causes Miss Bartlett some consternation, as it appears impolite. M. Lucy Honeychurch is touring Italy with her overbearing older cousin and chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett, and the novel opens with their complaints about the hotel, "The Pension Bertolini." Their primary concern is that although rooms with a view of the River Arno have been promised for each of them, their rooms instead look over a courtyard. Forster, about a young woman in the repressed culture of Edwardian era England. A M