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A ROOM WITH A VIEW explores love and prim propriety among a charming cast of eccentric characters assembled in Florence and in a corner of Surrey. When Lucy Honeychurch exchanges rooms with George Emerson to obtain a view of the Arno, she begins a friendsh ip that will lead her to look closely at love and life itself. Forster delightfully delves into one of his favourite themes: the 'undeveloped heart' of the English middle classes.
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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...
In this piece of social comedy, E.M. Forster is concerned with one of this favourite themes: the 'undeveloped heart' of the English middle classes, who are here represented by a group of tourists and expatriates in Florence.
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A well-reared Edwardian girl is lead into impropriety, confusion and passion on her first trip to Florence.
Tells the story of a young English couple who encounter passions in Italy, and, defying the Victorian conventions of their elders, dare to be true to their emotions and each other.
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A Room With a View Read by Joanna David
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 Honeychurch, a young English woman traveling in Italy with her stuffy chaperone aunt, finds herself constrained by the claustrophobic influence of her British guardians and attracted to the free-spirited George Emerson, whose family's radical politics make him entirely unsuitable. Sharing a spontaneous moment of passion with him in the Italian countryside, 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 final choice for her life between convention and passion.
Passions awake in a conventional middle class girl while on a tour of Italy. Returning home, she is torn between society's expectations and the stirrings in her quickening heart.
This novel contains all the essential elements of a great love story; social comedy, unavoidable mishaps, a beautiful setting, and a young man and woman at crossed purposes. Overwhelmed by the snobbish advice of her English companions, Lucy Moneychurch must find an anchor of resolve within her own heart if she is ever able to truly love.
The heroine, Lucy Honeychursh, finds herself in quite a 'muddle' after encountering the Emersons on a trip to Florence with her guardian cousin. Under Forster's artful eye, places and characters take on an enchanting yet realistic vibrancy and his insight into the workings of human emotion calls our attention to the importance of moral values.
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The love of a young British woman named Lucy Honeychurch for a British expatriate living in Italy is condemned by her stuffy, middle-class guardians, who prefer an eligible man of their own choosing.
A well-reared Edwardian girl is lead into impropriety, confusion and passion on her first visit to Florence.
Lucy Honeychurch, craving for sympathy and love, finds that in Florence there opens a vista beyond churches and galleries. At home once more in England, Lucy is never quite the same person again.
This novel explores love and prim propriety among a charming cast of eccentric characters assembled in Florence, Italy, and in a corner of Surrey, England. When Lucy Honeychurch exchanges rooms with George Emerson to obtain a view of the Arno, she begins a friendship that will lead her to look closely at love and life itself.
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Lucy Honeychurch, accompanied by her vigilant cousin Charlotte Bartlett, makes her first foray into the world, touring Italy. Thrown into new and exhilarating situations, Lucy experiences a very different life to her usual existence in the countryside of southern England. As her horizons widen and many of her Italian connections follow her homeward, Lucy, a talented pianist with a good brain, finds herself in a surprising emotional struggle. Caught between two men - the unconventional and spirited George Emerson, and sophisticated Cecil Vyse - Lucy is pulled between the social and sexual proprieties of her upbringing and the spontaneous promptings of her heart. But can she make the right choice? This audio version of the classic novel is read by Juliet Stevenson, one of Britain s best-loved actresses.
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Caught up in a world of social snobbery, Lucy Honeychurch finds herself constrained by its claustrophobic influences. Lucy must struggle between her own emotions and social conventions. In the end, however, Lucy takes control of her own fate.
Breathtakingly beautiful scenes of Italy and Hertfordshire are the backdrop for this charming and often comical romance.
In this brilliant piece of social comedy, E. M. Forster is concerned with one of his favourite themes: the 'undeveloped heart' of the English middle classes, who are here represented by a group of tourists and expatriates in Florence. The English abroad are observed with a sharply ironic eye, but one of them, the young and unaffected Lucy Honeychurch, is also drawn with great sympathy. In her relationships with the unconventional Emersons and with her fiance, Lucy is torn between lingering social and sexual Victorian proprieties and the promptings of her own undeveloped heart. --Container.
The story of a conventional middle-class English girl, set in both Florence and rural England at the turn of the century.
An Englishwoman steps out of social convention to find true love in E. M. Forster's delicately balanced and enchanting story.
E. M. Forster's celebrated social comedy explores romantic intrigue and prim propriety among a colorful cast of Edwardian characters. Lucy Honeychurch, a young English woman traveling in Italy with her stuffy chaperone aunt, finds herself constrained by the claustrophobic influence of her British guardians and attracted to the free-spirited George Emerson, whose family's radical politics make him entirely unsuitable. Sharing a spontaneous moment of passion with him in the Italian countryside, 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 final choice for her life between convention and passion.
Caught up in a world of social snobbery, Lucy Honeychurch must make a decision that will decide the course of her future: She is forced to choose between convention and passion.
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Visiting Italy with her prim and proper cousin Charlotte as a chaperone, Lucy Honeychurch meets the unconventional lower-class Mr. Emerson and his son, George. Upon her return to England she becomes engaged to the supercilious Cecil Vyse, but finds herself increasingly torn between the expectations of the world in which she moves and the passionate yearnings of her heart. As Forster writes, "You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you." More than a love story, A Room With a View is a perceptive examination of class structure and a penetrating social comedy.
Lucy Honeychurch has a choice between two different kinds of marriage, and two different ways of seeing the world and her position in it.
The romantic story of Lucy Honeychurch set in Italy and England is a cherished classic.
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An Englishwoman steps out of social convention to find true love in E.M. Forster's delicately balanced and enchanting story.
GENERAL & LITERARY FICTION. Published in 1908, A Room with a View was one of Forster's earliest novels and it has become one of his most famous and popular. The story is set in Florence, Italy, and Surrey, England and centers on young Lucy Honeychurch's choice between propriety and love. It is an accomplished and beautiful love story, full of generous insights. Edward Morgan (E.M.) Forster was born in 1879 in London and educated in Cambridge. After graduating he traveled to Greece and Italy. The Story of a Panic was his first short story and was published in 1904. Forster taught in Germany and England. His first novel was Where Angels Fear to Tread, published in 1905. Forster joined the International Red Cross at the outbreak of World War I and was posted in Alexandria until 1919. In 1924, he published A Passage To India. He refused knighthood but was awarded the Order of Merit in 1969. He died in 1970.
Lucy Honeychurch, accompanied by her vigilant guardian, Charlotte Bartlett, makes her first foray into the world, touring Italy and discovering a country very different to the English countryside she was brought up in. Torn between two lovers, she has to make a decision that will transform her from a girl to a woman. A talented pianist with a good brain, Lucy finds herself between two lovers.
A young Victorian Englishwoman runs from love in Florence, but returns to England where she must be taught how to listen to her heart.
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, Lucy 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 E. M. Forster's colorful characters, including outrageous spinsters, pompous clergymen and outspoken patriots. Written in 1908, A Room with a View is one of Forster's earliest and most celebrated works.
When Lucy Honeychurch exchanges rooms with George Emerson to obtain a view of Florence, Italy's Arno River, she begins a friendship that will lead her to look closely at love and life itself.
Sheila Hancock stars in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of E.M. Forster's glorious tale of love in Italy and England. Lucy Honeychurch is an innocent abroad. Under the care of her well-meaning but infuriating chaperon, cousin Charlotte, she is completing the final part of a conventional well-bred English upbringing, the Grand Tour. But the sensual atmosphere of the Florentine countryside exercises a strange power over Lucy's half-formed and untested character, as do her fellow guests at the Pension Bertolini. Back home in Surrey, Lucy fights the passions stirred in her by Italy and becomes very respectably engaged to the cultured Cecil Vyse. It promises to be a conventional life until, one day, Florence and all its accompanying emotion resurfaces in the form of young George Emerson. Torn between society's expectations and the stirrings of her quickening heart, Lucy struggles with her dilemma until her warring emotions reach an explosive climax.
"This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters. 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, Lucy is courted by a more acceptable, if stifling, suitor, and soon realizes she must make a startling decision between convention and passion."--Publisher.
ENGLAND SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS 20TH CENTURY Fiction.