A room with a view
A classic tale of British middle-class love, this novel displays Forster's skill in contrasting British sensibilities with those of foreign cultures, as he portrays the love of a British woman as she rejects the man her family has encouraged her to marry and chooses, instead, a socially unsuitable f...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Barnes & Noble Books/Vintage Books,
1993
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| Edition: | Vintage International edition. |
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| Summary: | A classic tale of British middle-class love, this novel displays Forster's skill in contrasting British sensibilities with those of foreign cultures, as he portrays the love of a British woman as she rejects the man her family has encouraged her to marry and chooses, instead, a socially unsuitable fellow she met on holiday in Italy. One of Forster's earliest and most celebrated works |
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| Physical Description: | x, 242 pages ; 21 cm |
| Audience: | Adult |
| ISBN: | 9780679724766 0679724761 9781566190947 1566190940 9781566191449 1566191440 |
| Author Notes: | He wrote six novels, four of which appeared before the First World War, Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), The Longest Journey (1907), A Room with a View (1908), and Howard's End (1910). An interval of fourteen years elapsed before he published A Passage to India. It won both the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Maurice, his novel on a homosexual theme, finished in 1914, was published posthumously in 1971. He also published two volumes of short stories; two collections of essays; a critical work, Aspects of the Novel; The Hill of Devi, a fascinating record of two visits Forster made to the Indian State of Dewas Senior; two biographies; two books about Alexandria (where he worked for the Red Cross in the First World War); and, with Eric Crozier, the libretto for Britten's opera Billy Budd. He died in June 1970. |
