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A Room With a View

By E. M. Forster, Oliver Stallybrass (Editor), Oliver Stallybrass (Preface)

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| Paperback | 9780140180787

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This edition includes Forster's light-hearted sequel, 'A View Without a Room'.

In this brilliant piece of social comedy 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 Fl Continue

This edition includes Forster's light-hearted sequel, 'A View Without a Room'.

In this brilliant piece of social comedy 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 relationship with her dismal cousin Charlotte, with the unconventional Emersons and – the scene transferred to England – with her supercilious fiancé, Lucy is torn between lingering Victorian proprieties, social and sexual, and the spontaneous promptings of her heart(‘an undeveloped heart, not a cold one’). Thus there are hidden depths of meaning in this sunniest and most readable of Forster’s novels.

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    So bittersweetly delightful... Somewhat reminescent of Henry James, but just somewhat. I can't help seeing Lucy as a more constricted Isabel Archer. And that funny (or perhaps not so funny, after all...) notion od the power Italy has of melting some layer of Britishness...

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    Martinbenedick said on Jun 15, 2007 | Add your feedback

  • ***1/2
    Lovely characters, delightful story, much-appreciated irony and wit. I'm not sure I liked the lovebirds in the very last chapter: one expects overwhelming passion for love and life and gets Lucy mending a sock instead.

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    l'aura said on May 21, 2012 | Add your feedback

  • I've lost the count of how many times I've read this book. It's witty and funny, with in addition a flavour of romanticism. With Pride and Prejudice, this is the book I use to fight bad mood!

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    Cenedra84 said on Feb 4, 2011 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

  • Great light reading. Memorable characters. Forester does a marvelous job with charcter development and adding depth to seemingly dry personalities. Another re-read!

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    David Anthony Saenz said on Oct 24, 2010 | Add your feedback

  • The English. Tuscany. Forster can be quite hard to read at times, but this is much more approachable than most of his other novels.

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    Annalisa said on Oct 22, 2009 | Add your feedback

  • Best descriptions of being confused by first-love I've ever read!

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    sid_rw said on Jul 1, 2008 | Add your feedback

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