description: "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 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?
language: English
title: A Room with a View
titlecomplete: A Room with a View
characters: Cecil Vyse, Mr. Emerson, Miss Alan, Charlotte Bartlett, Lucy Honeychurch, George Emerson, Eleanor Lavish, Freddy Honeychurch, Rev. Cuthbert Eager, Rev. Arthur Beebe
genres: 20th Century, Literature, British Literature, Audiobook, Classics, Novels, Italy, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 179081
places: Florence, Tuscany, Surrey, England, Italy, England, Tuscany
publisher: Random House Value Publishing