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A Room with a View was the third of E. M. Forster's novels - those five works which culminated, after the First World War, in A Passage to India. In some ways it is the freshest and most youthful of all. Forster is concerned with 'the undeveloped heart' of the upper middle class in this brilliant piece of social comedy, and the action of the novel opens round a group of English people staying in Florence. The English abroad are observed with a shrewd twinkle, but in the young and unaffected figure of Lucy Honeychurch the author begins to develop his attitude to the changing social values of the beginning of this century. Lucy's relationship with the Emersons, an unconventional father and son, and her subsequent engagement, back in England, to an unresponsive fiance, import a profound meaning into a novel which is always enjoyable and deceptively easy to read. The cover shows "Open Window at St Janet' by Raoul Dufy.

This Audio Book is a live performance by Nita Moyer and is provided on a single Compact Disk in "MP3" format; 7 hours 11 minutes of unabridged audio of the original text. The book can be played on all MP3 players, Most newer CD/DVD players, Mobile audio devices, PDAs, Pocket PCs and PC CD/DVD-ROMs. A British middle-class romance, one of E.M.Forster's early and a recently celebrated work, is set in Florence, Italy -the birth place of the Renaissance. Forster explores relationships with a cast of eccentric characters gathered in an Italian pension and in England. Lucy Honeychurch must make a decision; She is forced to choose between her love for a working man, and the safe but conventional marriage to an idle rich middle-class gentleman. Forster brings us into a world of culture and 19th century snobbery. Forster takes us to Florence, Italy and Tuscany; a place of magic and scenery unmatched by any postcard. We are lead to a culture of another era set in a timeless beauty found only under a Tuscan sun; A contrast to Lucy’s life back home at Windy Corners in England. Around every corner Forster paints a picture that is vivid and enchanting; A hillside in Tuscany where famous painters visit, a square that fills the evening air with excitement and a pilgrimage to scenic cityscapes. A Room With A View begins in a pension with a view of the Arno. Charlotte Bartlett, Lucy’s companion, travels to Florence, Italy, acting as Lucy's chaperone; a part of Charlotte’s costs for the trip are borne by Lucy’s mother. Poor Charlotte soon is much fascinated with the other characters at their lodgings and is distracted from her duties as chaperone. Lucy finds a new freedom and takes us through many settings of old and quaint urban sight seeing and adventure. She meets George Emerson and his father Mr.Emerson. More characters and places fill this novel than can be imagined in 7 hours of reading. The novel ends in Italy; a happy ending that will warm your heart.

The incomparably beautiful city of Florence and the peaceful backwaters of rural England at the turn of the century serve as the remarkable settings for this lavish BBC dramatization of E.M. Forster's classic social satire, complete with a distinguished cast and stirring music.A Room With a ViewLucy Honeychurch is an innocent abroad -- a conventional middle-class English girl doing the Grand Tour of the European continent. But the "improving" effects of Europe's great art and architecture are soon overshadowed by a startling encounter with violent death and the distractions of an awakening passion.Forced to return to her life in England, beset with prim Victorian moral values, Lucy becomes engaged to the arrogant Cecil, but soon finds herself forn between Victorian society's expectations of her and the stirrings of her own quickening heart...

E. M. Forster's celebrated social comedy explores romantic intrigue and prim propriety among a colorful cast of Edwardian characters. Lucy Honeychurch, a young English woman traveling in Italy with her stuffy chaperone aunt, finds herself constrained by the claustrophobic influence of her British guardians and attracted to the free-spirited George Emerson, whose family's radical politics make him entirely unsuitable. Sharing a spontaneous moment of passion with him in the Italian countryside, 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 final choice between convention and passion.

Visiting Italy with her prim and proper cousin Charlotte as a chaperone, Lucy Honeychurch meets the unconventional, lower-class Mr. Emerson and his son, George. Upon her return to England she becomes engaged to the supercilious Cecil Vyse, but finds herself increasingly torn between the expectations of the world in which she moves and the passionate yearnings of her heart. As Forster writes, "You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you."

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Lucy Honeychurch, an upper middle class girl, and her cousin, Charlotte, travel from England to Italy on vacation. While on the trip, the two women share a guest house with a man and his son George Emmerson. After switching rooms to offer the women a better view overlooking the scenic river, the Emmersons and Honeychurches get to know each other better. Mr. Emmerson suggests that Lucy and George may be a good match for each other. The two potential lovebirds have a chance encounter that evening that makes George seem like a hero, however, Lucy has to let him down gently and tell him that she is not interested in pursuing a romantic relationship with him. Lucy and Charlotte leave the guest house lodgings and continue on with their travels where Lucy encounters another man, Cecil Vyse, who proposes to her and Lucy accepts. Once Lucy and Charlotte finally return home to England, and George learns about these occurrences, he objects to the two getting married and confesses his true love for Lucy. Lucy soon becomes entrapped in a love triangle with the two men, and she must figure out which path she wants to follow.

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About A Room with a View by E. M. Forster 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 critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. Merchant-Ivory produced an award-winning film adaptation in 1985.