| A Room with a View Contributor(s): Forster, E. M. (Author), Leavitt, David (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0451531388 ISBN-13: 9780451531384 Publisher: Signet Book OUR PRICE: $6.26 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: September 2009 Annotation: A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman, Lucy, in the repressed culture of Edwardian England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Romance - Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2010280330 |
| Lexile Measure: 760 |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 4.2" W x 6.82" (0.26 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Wit and intelligence are the hallmarks of this probing portrait of the English character. And in this story of extreme contrasts--in values, social class, and cultural perspectives--an unconventional romantic relationship leads to conventional happiness in a delightful social comedy. While touring Italy with her overbearing cousin, well-bred Lucy Honeychurch falls in love with the handsome but entirely unsuitable George Emerson, only to become engaged to the haughty Cecil Vyse. But Lucy is lured away from the conventions of upper-middle-class Edwardian society by her yearnings for the clerk she left behind. A Room with a View satirizes the English notion of respectability--and remains Forster's most beloved novel and a twentieth-century classic. |