| A Room with a View by E.M. Forster, Fiction, Classics Contributor(s): Forster, E. M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1603126449 ISBN-13: 9781603126441 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Romance - Historical - 20th Century - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" (0.87 lbs) 172 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Forster's 1908 novel, A Room with a View, is his most optimistic work, while A Passage to India (1924) brought him his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 13 different years. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. Lucy is a well-mannered Edwardian lady who finds that true love has no interest in playing by her rules. But how can she choose between what she wants and what everyone around her expects her to want? This gentle but sharp comedy has it all: surprise encounters, jealousy and revenge, conventional fools and unconventional sages, confrontation, loss, and eventual triumph. |
Contributor Bio(s): Forster, E. M.: - "Edward Morgan Forster (1879 - 1970), better known by his pen name E. M. Forster, 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 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 ... ." His 1908 novel, A Room with a View, is his most optimistic work, while A Passage to India (1924) brought him his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 different years." |