Forster, E. M.: 1879-1970
A Room with a View, 1908 - Information about the Book
- General Information
- Lucy Honeychurch, a young Englishwoman, is touring Italy with her older cousin. At a hotel in Florence, Lucy meets the charming and free-spirited George Emerson. Although intrigued by George, once she's back in England Lucy ponders settling down with the wealthy, staid Cecil Vyse. When George reappears in her life, Lucy must decide between him and Cecil.
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Facts
- The Modern Library ranked "A Room with a View" 79th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
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Reviews
- Review: "Despite the beautiful language, the topic at hand is very serious. The story is a romance, but it is also socially and politically aware." Alicia Whavers
- Review. "It is a satiric comedy of manners with a refreshing current of irreverence that contemporary readers will enjoy." September 4, 2023
- Review: "We all need the room to express our personal truths, the openness and freedom to love that views represent in this novel. The values of self-knowledge over self-denial, of clear communication over muddled thinking, of the love and light that we can only express if we are true to ourselves." Janine Ballard; February 16, 2011
- Why This Novel of Refreshing Innocence and Simple Pleasures Will Always Be Relevant: "Muddle shows up throughout the novel. And it was, indeed, a muddle that Lucy had gotten herself into near the book’s conclusion, lying to George by telling him she did not love him, lying to Cecil by telling him that she was not leaving him because she loved another, lying to her family by telling them that she really did want to accompany the elderly Miss Alans to Greece." Susan Rebecca White; September 5, 2019
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- What’s Up With the Title?
- Nature and (Social) Environment (The article will be downloaded): "Nature – and various natural events, including the rain described in this scene – becomes both a place to situate the characters and an instrument through which to de ne the characters’ actions, behaviors, and feelings." Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad, University of Vienna
- Lucy Honeychurch: "Forster writes about the characters as if they were real." From Literary Gitane