A Room with a View
Penguin Essentials
Published on 7. April 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-241-95148-4 (ISBN)
Description
A sunny, brilliantly witty comedy of manners, this edition of A Room with a View is part of the Penguin Essentials collection and features beautiful cover art by Chris Silas Neal
'You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you . . .'
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 Pertolini: 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 Victorian England, personified in her terminally dull fiance Cecil Vyse. Will she ever learn to follow her own heart?
'He says, and even more implies, things that no other novelist does, and we can go on reading Forster indefinitely' The Times
'I loved it. My first intimation of the possibilities of fiction' Zadie Smith
'You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you . . .'
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 Pertolini: 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 Victorian England, personified in her terminally dull fiance Cecil Vyse. Will she ever learn to follow her own heart?
'He says, and even more implies, things that no other novelist does, and we can go on reading Forster indefinitely' The Times
'I loved it. My first intimation of the possibilities of fiction' Zadie Smith
Reviews / Votes
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 *More details
Series
Edition
New ed
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 180 mm
Width: 112 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
133 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-241-95148-4 (9780241951484)
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Previous edition
E.M. Forster
A Room with a View
Book
02/1999
Penguin Books Ltd
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Person
Edward Morgan Forster was born in London in 1879. He studied at King's College, Cambridge. He wrote six novels, four of which appeared before the First World War, Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), The Longest Journey (1907), A Room with a View (1908) and Howard's End (1910). An interval of fourteen years elapsed before he published A Passage to India. It won both the Prix Femina Vie Heuruse and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He last novel, Maurice, was published posthumously in 1971. He also published two volumes of short stories and a number of non-fiction books. E. M. Forster died in 1970.