True and Complete Edition: A young Englishwoman's adventure trying to come to grips with the conflict between her desires and society's expectations. Lucy is a well-bred young middle class girl on holiday in radiant Florence. She comes from a family overly concerned with respectability and is therefore overprotected by a spinster named Charlotte...One of the finest "novels of manners" ever written, a hilarious and witty satire of the excessive propriety and mannerisms of the English in an age of repression. It is also the fascinating love story of a young woman stuck in this repressive English culture that is transformed by romantic Italy and awakened to love when she meets the true love of her life there without even realizing it... will she wake up before it's too late? This is a classic to come and read again and again. A superb book that you will remember long after you read it. Making your own discovery of this story is part of its appeal. Full, Complete and Original Edition!
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Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH (1 January 1879 - 7 June 1970), was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy and also the attitudes towards gender in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect".
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A book that should be read at least twice over one's life!,
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A wonderful, perfect book by EM Forster, (Howards End) Howards End that is just a joy to read. A delightful and interesting story of love and romance, as well as social and human interest. Set in Italy and England, the different cultures, do different from the starched collar of the English, and the romantic easy going Italians.
Truly a delightful, joy to read, and a book that should be read at least twice over one's life! Enjoy!
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It's one of those books we MUST read sometime, so why not treat yourself today?,
By Felicity Barrington "Seeking Sunshine in Seattle" (The Wet Coast) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Room with a View (Paperback)
In my opinion, Forster was one of the most gifted English writers of his time. He produced wonderful sentences with the perfect word mix - a wordsmith almost of Shakespeare's quality. In his famous 'Room with a View' we begin at an English Guest house in Florenece, Italy. Lucy and her cousin Charlotte are amongst the guests, and are given a room with a view by the spontaneous Emmersons, George and his father. Lucy is the central character, and will soon witness a murder; after which, she is immediately comforted by George Emmerson who later kisses her on an outing in the hills. The story then relocates to England and the Emmersoms have taken residence near her home....
Not only a superb love story, but a first rate satire along the lines of Austen (some will say better?). A novel thoroughly enjoyable from the first page to the last. It's heart-warming, a love story, and very funny. It completely charmed me. If you have never read this charming book, now is the time, it's one of those books we MUST read sometime, so why not treat yourself today?
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