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Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Penguin Classics (31 Aug 2006)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0141183292
ISBN-13: 978-0141183299
Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.6 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)

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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.

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Edward Morgan Forster was born in London in 1879. 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. Maurice, his novel on a homosexual theme, finished in 1914, was published posthumously in 1971. Malcolm Bradbury was a novelist, critic, television dramatist and Emeritus Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia. He is author of the novels Eating People is Wrong (1959); Stepping Westward (1965); The History Man (1975); Rates of Exchange (1983) which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Cuts: A Very Short Novel (1987); and Doctor Criminale (1992). His critical works include The Modern American Novel (1984; revised edition, 1992); No, Not Bloomsbury (essays, 1987); The Modern world: Ten Great Writers (1988); From Puritanism to Post-modernism: A History of American Literature (with Richard Ruland, 1991).

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5.0 out of 5 stars Spectacular Reading by Joanna David, 21 Jan 2005

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This review is from: A Room with a View: Complete & Unabridged (Audio Cassette)

It's hard to know which to praise more, E. M. Forester's witty comedy of manners, or Joanna David's nuanced and entertaining reading of the book. Clearly, the combination of the two is that rare marriage of great writing brought to life by a talented actress. If you only listen to one audio book this year, you would do well to make it this one.

Forester writes about an England that is long gone . . . but not forgotten. The middle class has its wits and its respectability to defend itself from the vagaries of a challenging world. Naturally, the middle class prefers its own company and so-called manners are merely an excuse to keep everyone else at bay. The absurdity of this way of living is highlighted when Forester takes a young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch (don't you love that name?), off for a trip to Florence in the company of her maiden cousin, Charlotte, who also serves as chaperone.

A variety of English tourists are gathered in a small Italian pensione in Florence when Lucy and Charlotte arrive. Both women had asked for and been promised rooms with a view. Upon arrival, they got just the opposite. Complaining over dinner about this, two men, a father and his son, immediately offer to exchange rooms. This offer breaks most rules of good manners at the time, and the women turn down the kind, well-intentioned offer. Thus far can manners cause one to go against one's best interests. During their time in Florence, the women find themselves confounded and redirected by the honest helpfulness of the Emerson men. But the familiarity raises dangerous challenges for Lucy, and she flees their company.

The rest of the story looks at the consequences of the flight and focuses on Lucy's attempts to find a way of life that makes sense for her . . . rather than being a slave to social convention.

Describing the story's plot doesn't do justice to the witty satires and ironic comments about the pompously respectable. It's a delicious romp, and Ms. David makes it all the more so.

If you are like me, you'll find yourself racing to the end to find out what Lucy does with herself.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Room with a View, 23 Nov 2005

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This review is from: A Room with a View (Penguin Modern Classics) (Paperback)

This is a fantastic book about a girl who is torn between love and duty - between truth and hypocrisy. Set in florence and england at the turn of the century it is less a love story than a psychological study and a comedy-of-manners. Endlessly engaging and with Forsters characteristicaly beautiful prose, this is a must-read for fans of classic literature. To my thinking, this is a better book by far than all of its nineteenth and eighteenth century contemporaries (including Austen, whom i think overated)

One is given to think, as the novel closes, that the book marks the border between the old world of English manners and social rules and the new free-thinking twentieth century.

Read it! Read it now!

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5.0 out of 5 stars one of the most beautiful love stories of the 20th century, 13 Jun 2001

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A Room with a View was by E.M. Forster himself considered 'rather slight'. He did not do himself justice. One cannot agree with him: it is the kind of novel that reverbarates in one's mind - it has the stature of a major classic. As the story unfolds the major character learns to acknowledge her true feelings. A delicate story with beautiful philosophical insight, witty ironical social comedy and a touch of deep warmth and romance.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Classicly funny and excellent romance story
I read this book thinking it may be difficult to get into however i have read books from the same period(Jane Austen) and found it was very easy to get into the story. Read more

Published 3 months ago by bluebellmango

2.0 out of 5 stars Lucy awakened? She should have done it sooner.......
I first read 'A Room with a View' when I was studying
it for my English Literature O-level back in 1975 and
yes, gentle reader, I passed! Read more

Published 4 months ago by Peter S. Kinnison

5.0 out of 5 stars A Room with a View by E.M.Forster
I bought the novel because I lost or lent out my existing copy. I read it years ago and wouldn't be without it; it's a classic and there is a wonderful film of it. Read more

Published 6 months ago by Delma

3.0 out of 5 stars A truer word was never spoke...
Contrary to the back cover precis of EM Forster's classic, I found this story neither a '...brilliant social comedy...' nor '... Read more

Published 10 months ago by Barbara C Browning

3.0 out of 5 stars And so it goes...
Intelligent social observations and subtle wit make this a pleasant little novel. To be fair, this is not Jane Austen, though it does fall into that kind of genre. Read more

Published 11 months ago by Mark Dickens

5.0 out of 5 stars A Personal Awakening a Century Ago - Still a Valid Lesson
This charming little novel which has recently celebrated its centennary can be easily put down as a period piece. Read more

Published 11 months ago by Ford Ka

2.0 out of 5 stars Mostly very dull
I read this purely because of the Italian setting, though only the first section is set there, in Florence. Read more

Published 13 months ago by John Hopper

5.0 out of 5 stars The best drug
It's very simple really. I work all day in an office as part of a modern globalised monoculture.

And then on the way home I read A Room with a View and reacquaint... Read more

Published on 3 April 2007 by Gaz

4.0 out of 5 stars Predominantly sunny, pink and fluffy
As predictable and slow as it often is ARWAV has much charm. The storyline is as old as the hills- a girl of means falls for a less worthy man- but Forster's art and verve saves... Read more

Published on 29 Jan 2003 by lexi_wades

5.0 out of 5 stars beautiful, romantic, funny
and full of references (which I love). The metamorphosis of the main character is subtle against the background of classic and Florence and Victorian England. Read more

Published on 7 May 2001 by christine_van_rossum@yahoo.com

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