Books with title A Room with a Zoo

New edition, with a note from the author! MADCAP MYSTERIES WITH A MESSAGE What are the weird noises coming from Room 570? Are there really such things as ghosts? Why do flowers keep sprouting from Sean’s head? Sean and Melissa have won an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C. When they hear about a ring of international spies on the loose in the city, the brother-sister detective team knows they’ve got a mystery to solve. Little things like being haunted by Civil War ghosts and the sudden growth of vegetation in Sean’s hair won’t distract Bloodhounds, Inc. from uncovering the truth about a stolen top-secret helicopter! And the lesson they learn—that real men and women love Jesus--will stick with them forever.

“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”E. M. Forster’s A Room With A View is ranked 79th on the Modern Library’s list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It was adapted into an Oscar-winning movie in 1985.Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?The main themes of this novel include repressed sexuality, freedom from institutional religion, growing up and true love. This new digital edition includes an image gallery that showcases numerous portraits of Forster. There are also links to a free unabridged audio recording of A Room With A View.

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. She longs for independence and freedom from the constrictions of being a woman at the beginning of the 20th century. In this novel, Lucy Honeychurch is wooed by two gentlemen and she must decide to marry for love or money. 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.

When Lucy Honeychurch embarks on a journey of a lifetime to Italy, little does she know that she would fall for the reckless man George, with whom she and co-traveller had exchanged the room with in Florence. In spite of her self-denial about her growing attraction to George Lucy knows in her heart that she cannot marry another man, let alone Cecil Vyse, who is not only downright obnoxious but also overbearing. This book is a classic romance which has also been adapted into a highly successful movie featuring Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands, Maggie Smith and Daniel Day-Lewis.

This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England.A charming young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted to this man, George Emerson—who is entirely unsuitable and whose father just may be a Socialist—Lucy is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires. Back in England, she is courted by a more acceptable, if stifling, suitor and soon realizes she must make a startling decision that will decide the course of her future: she is forced to choose between convention and passion.

• The book includes 10 unique illustrations that are relevant to its content.A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman 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. Merchant-Ivory produced an award-winning film adaptation in 1985. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked A Room with a View 79th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

It's time to rediscover the wonderful books we all cherish. Published in 1908, A Room with A View is one of E. M. Forster's most celebrated works. Forster explores love among a cast of eccentric characters gathered in an Italian pension and in a corner of Surrey, England. Caught up in a world of social snobbery, Lucy Honeychurch must make a decision that will decide the course of her future: She is forced to choose between convention and passion.

"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you, and no other word expresses it ..."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 Bertolini: 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 Edwardian England, personified in her terminally dull fiancé Cecil Vyse. Will she ever learn to follow her own heart?(Additional author biography)