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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0141183292
ISBN-13: 9780141183299
Jul 2000
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
206 pages
Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
Language: English |
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Details
Synopsis
Young Englishwoman Lucy Honeychurch is on an Italian holiday with her pushy, very proper older cousin Charlotte Bartlett. Although they each had been promised by the Signora "a room with a view," their windows do not overlook the Arno. A gentleman traveler (clearly of a lower class) overhears the women peevishly discussing their situation and generously offers to trade rooms, since his and his son's rooms have lovely views of the river. Without hesitation Miss Bartlett, who takes her role as Lucy's chaperone very seriously, turns down their improper proposal. This is only the first of several missteps that the unconventional Emerson men will make, but despite her cousin's objections, Lucy finds herself attracted to the younger Mr. Emerson more and more with their every chance encounter in Florence. Setting Lucy up with a choice between passion and propriety, between love and obligation, E. M. Forster issues a pointed and witty critique of Edwardian British society and its hypocrisies in this acclaimed novel.
| Details | | Series: | Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics |
| Size | | Length: | 206 pages | | Height: | 7.8 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 5.6 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: ""The Signora had no business to do it," said Miss Bartlett, "no business at all."
Industry Reviews
"...[W]e are amused rather than bewildered. We are more amused, indeed, for we recognize that odd sense of freedom which books give us when they seem to represent the world as we see it....We have originality and observation, and a book as clever as the other books that Mr. Forster has written already."
Times Literary Supplement - Virginia Woolf (10/22/1908)
"No modern English novelist has declared a moral purpose as directly as E. M. Forster, who addresses the reader in a voice at once moderate, serene, and full of fervor. The fervor is for the dignity of human relationships, that people should nurture their individuality--he deplored the 'undeveloped heart'--yet also transcend it in mutual connections of loving respect. This message of 'Only connect!' is embodied in characters who are robustly alive....Written at the beginning of the century, Forster's novels have radiantly endured to its end, their relevance preserved in their author's profoundly serious wit."
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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