A Room With A View, E. M. Forster
A Room With A View, E. M. Forster
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A Room With A View

Author: E. M. Forster

Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano, The Crush

Unabridged: 7 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/06/2022

Synopsis

A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the restrained culture of Edwardian-era England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a humorous critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. Merchant Ivory produced an award-winning film adaptation in 1985.

The Modern Library ranked A Room with a View 79th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century (1998).

Edward Morgan Forster OM CH was an English author, best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India. He also wrote numerous short stories, essays, speeches, and broadcasts, as well as a limited number of biographies and some pageant plays.

About E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster (1879–1970) 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 attitudes toward gender and homosexuality in early-twentieth-century British society. Among his most notable novels are Howards End, A Room with a View, A Passage to India, The Longest Journey, and Where Angels Fear to Tread.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Meghhnaa on September 17, 2022

It took me longest to put across and structure my views, for this Classic. Weighing light as a physical copy, but out-weighing many others thematically, this book delineates complex-sensitive issues of religion, passion, respectability and coming-of-age, without rendering itself into a rebellion or......more

Goodreads review by Candi on July 14, 2018

4.5 stars "Italians are born knowing the way. It would seem that the whole earth lay before them, not as a map, but as a chess-board, whereon they continually behold the changing pieces as well as the squares. Any one can find places, but the finding of people is a gift from God." Ah, there is nothing......more

Goodreads review by Jim on May 22, 2020

A Room with a View by E. M. Forster A novel of manners by a master. It is set in England in the early 1900’s -- the Edwardian era. As we are told in the introduction, D. H. Lawrence wrote “About social existence, E. M. Forster knew everything.” Christopher Isherwood called him the expert on “My Engla......more

Goodreads review by Lisa of Troy on August 23, 2024

Booktube made me read this book after watching Tristan and the Classics, 12 Short Classic Books – 200 pages or less! This short, little book was first published in 1908, and it focuses on Ms. Lucy Honeychurch. She is visiting Italy with her annoying guardian, Charlotte Bartlett. Ultimately, Lucy has......more

Goodreads review by Henry on March 20, 2024

The Pensione (pension) Bertolini in Florence, Italy has everything for the visiting tourists, Miss Lucy Honeychurch and her older poorer cousin Charlotte Bartlett a rather overbearing chaperon, fine food, (not really) wines not too bad this is Italy and a room with a view. Unfortunately not for the......more

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