A Room with a View
About this book
First published in 1908, E. M. Forster's "A Room with a View" is the story of a young English middle-class girl named Lucy Honeychurch. As the novel opens we find Lucy touring Italy with her overbearing older cousin and chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett. The two are upset over the views from their rooms. Having been promised views that overlook the river Arno, the two instead receive views of the courtyard. Their complaints are overheard by Mr. Emerson, who offers to swap rooms with them, citing the fact that he and his son George both have rooms that overlook the Arno. After a brief romantic encounter between George Emerson and Lucy while they are in Florence, the two travel on to Rome where Lucy is wooed by her friend from England Cecil Vyse. When Lucy learns from the vicar that a local cottage has been rented she discovers that the Emersons have arrived in Rome. Again the prospect of romance with George entices Lucy but she is torn between the more acceptable prospect of a union with Cecil. "A Room with a View" is the classic human struggle of choosing a partner who is the most socially acceptable versus the desire for true love.
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Table of contents
- A Room With A View
- CONTENTS
- PART ONE
- Chapter II In Santa Croce with No Baedeker
- Chapter III Music, Violets, and the Letter “S”
- Chapter IV Fourth Chapter
- Chapter V Possibilities of a Pleasant Outing
- Chapter VI The Reverend Arthur Beebe, the Reverend Cuthbert Eager, Mr. Emerson, Mr. George Emerson, Miss Eleanor Lavish, Miss Charlotte Bartlett, and Miss Lucy Honeychurch Drive Out in Carriages to See a View; Italians Drive Them.
- Chapter VII They Return
- PART TWO
- Chapter IX Lucy As a Work of Art
- Chapter X Cecil as a Humourist
- Chapter XI In Mrs. Vyse’s Well-Appointed Flat
- Chapter XII Twelfth Chapter
- Chapter XIII How Miss Bartlett’s Boiler Was So Tiresome
- Chapter XIV How Lucy Faced the External Situation Bravely
- Chapter XV The Disaster Within
- Chapter XVI Lying to George
- Chapter XVII Lying to Cecil
- Chapter XVIII Lying to Mr. Beebe, Mrs. Honeychurch, Freddy, and The Servants
- Chapter XIX Lying to Mr. Emerson
- Chapter XX The End of the Middle Ages