A Room with a View: E. M. Forster (The Penguin English Library) - Softcover

Forster, E. M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141199822 ISBN 13: 9780141199825

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2012

The Penguin English Library Edition of A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

'"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you, and no other word expresses it ..."

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?

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Review:

I loved it. 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

Book Description:

E. M. Forster is one of the great twentieth century authors.

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0141199822
• ISBN 13: 9780141199825
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256