Bibliograph

A room with a view, E. M. Forster

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A room with a view, E. M. Forster

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

A room with a view

Responsibility statement

E. M. Forster

Series statement

Penguin English library

Summary

Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Pertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney Signora, curious Mr Emerson and, most of all, his passionate son George. Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy and the repressed morals of Victorian England, personified in her terminally dull fiance Cecil Vyse

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