A Room With a View

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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 fiancé 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

ISBN: 9780241951484

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Forster’s social comedy is a witty observation of the English middle classes as they holiday abroad in Florence. One of these tourists is Lucy Honeychurch, a young girl whose heart is awakened by her experiences in Italy.

Additional information

Weight 0.125 kg
Dimensions 18.1 × 11.1 × 1.4 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

210

Language

English

Edition

Reprint

Dewey

823.912 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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