A room with a view

Visiting Florence 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, Lucy becomes engaged to the supercilious Cecil Vyse, but she finds herself increasingly torn between the expectations of the world in which she moves, and the passionate yearnings of her heart. More than a love story, A Room with a View (1908) is a penetrating social comedy and the brilliant study of contrast, in values, social class, and cultural perspectives, and the ingenuity of fate. In her illuminating introduction, Foster biographer Wendy Moffat delves into the little known details of his life before and during the writing of A Room with a View, and explores the way the enigmatic author’s queer eye found comedy in the clash between English manners and the unsettling, modern award, encouraging his reader to recognize and overcome their prejudice to humor. This edition, also contains new suggestions for Further Reading by Moffat.

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