A Room With a View Biography, A Room With a View Videos, A Room With a View Similar artist, A Room With a View Discography, A Room With a View Tags

You are in : HOME : A : A Room With a View :

    • Biography A Room With a View

    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 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. Plot summary Part one The first part of the novel is set in Florence, Italy, and describes a young Englishwoman's confusion over her feelings for an Englishman staying at the same hotel. Lucy Honeychurch is touring Italy with her overbearing older cousin and chaperon, Charlotte Bartlett, and the novel opens with their complaints about the hotel,'The Bertolini'. Their primary concern is that although a "room with a view" has been promised to each of them, their rooms instead look over a courtyard. A Mr Emerson interrupts their "peevish wrangling", offering to swap rooms as he and his son, Geo

    Discography

    Discography not available

    Videos

    Videos not available