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A Room with a View - E. M. Forster

Description: ISBN 0141183292 / Author: E.M. Forster / Genre: Fiction / In this piece of social comedy, Forster is concerned with one of his favourite ... more

A Room with a View - E. M. Forster ... themes - the undeveloped heart of the English middle classes, who are here represented by a group of tourists and expatriates in Florence.

Newest Review: ... to bring George up free from the taint of religion, as it was then, with its overbearing morality and the concept of sin. He ... more

... hasn't much time for the social etiquette of the day; all he wants is for people to be happy, and he speaks his mind. No wonder he and George are semi-outcasts among the English in Florence, and at home. "The son, who took every little contretemps as if it were a tragedy, was listening also. 'My father has that effect on nearly everyone,' he informed her. 'He will try to be kind.' 'I hope we all try,' said she (Lucy), smiling nervously. 'Because we think it improves our chara...more

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A Room with a View - E. M. Forster: "The old trouble: things won't fit." (1884 words)
by - written on 28/07/01 (Very useful, 288 readings)
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"Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?" I love that. The tentative, romantic sentiment struggling to emerge from beneath the propriety and the prissiness. It sums up 'A Room with a View', really. I have no idea what Forster was hoping to say when he first started writing this book in 1902, and nor did he, apparently; his earliest notes for it end, after a list of the characters, with the wonderfully endearing question, 'Doing What?' It took him the best part of six years to answer that. What they end up doing, is embodying certain types and ... Read the complete review