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A Room with a View. E.M. Forster (Penguin Essentials)
E. M. Forster
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Description for A Room with a View. E.M. Forster (Penguin Essentials)
Paperback. 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. 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. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 114 x 14. Weight in Grams: 128.
'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 ... Read more
'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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Penguin Essentials
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241951484
SKU
9780241951484
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About E. M. Forster
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 ... Read more
Reviews for A Room with a View. E.M. Forster (Penguin Essentials)
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
The Times
I loved it. My first intimation of the possibilities of fiction
Zadie Smith