num_pages: 199
description: A charming tale of the battle between bourgeois repression and radical romanticism, E. M. Forster’s third novel has long been the most popular of his early works. A young girl, Lucy Honeychurch, and her chaperon—products of proper Edwardian England—visit a tempestuous, passionate Italy. Their “room with a view” allows them to look into a world far different from their own, a world unconcerned with convention, unfettered by social rituals, and unafraid of emotion. Soon Lucy finds herself bound to an obviously “unsuitable” man, the melancholic George Emerson, whose improper advances she dare not publicize. Back home, her friend and mentor Charlotte Bartlett and her mother, try to manipulate her into marriage with the more “appropriate” but smotheringly dull Cecil Vyse, whose surname suggests the imprisoning effect he would have on Lucy’s spirit.A colorful gallery of characters, including George’s riotously funny father, Lucy’s sullen brother, the novelist Eleanor Lavish, and the reverend Mr. Beebe, line up on either side, and A Room with a View unfolds as a delightfully satiric comedy of manners and an immensely satisfying love story.
language: English
title: A Room with a View
titlecomplete: A Room with a View
characters: Eleanor Lavish, Rev. Arthur Beebe, Lucy Honeychurch, Cecil Vyse, Rev. Cuthbert Eager, Miss Alan, Freddy Honeychurch, George Emerson, Mr. Emerson, Charlotte Bartlett
genres: Fiction, Italy, British Literature, Romance, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Audiobook
ratings_count: 179090
places: Tuscany, Florence, Tuscany, Italy, Surrey, England, England
publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics