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A Room with a View (Penguin Classics) by: E.M. Forster, Malcolm Bradbury List Price: £8.99 City Travel Guides Price: £6.99 You Save: £2.00 (22%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912 EAN: 9780141183299 ISBN: 0141183292 Label: Penguin Classics Manufacturer: Penguin Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: August 31, 2006 Publisher: Penguin Classics Studio: Penguin Classics Sales Rank: 13119 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - The best drugIt's very simple really. I work all day in an office as part of a modern globalised monoculture. And then on the way home I read A Room with a View and reacquaint myself with everything that's true. Books like this are treasured friends. Rating: - Room with a ViewThis is a fantastic book about a girl who is torn between love and duty - between truth and hypocrisy. Set in florence and england at the turn of the century it is less a love story than a psychological study and a comedy-of-manners. Endlessly engaging and with Forsters characteristicaly beautiful prose, this is a must-read for fans of classic literature. To my thinking, this is a better book by far than all of its nineteenth and eighteenth century contemporaries (including Austen, whom i think overated) One is given to think, as the novel closes, that the book marks the border between the old world of English manners and social rules and the new free-thinking twentieth century. Read it! Read it now! Rating: - Spectacular Reading by Joanna DavidIt's hard to know which to praise more, E. M. Forester's witty comedy of manners, or Joanna David's nuanced and entertaining reading of the book. Clearly, the combination of the two is that rare marriage of great writing brought to life by a talented actress. If you only listen to one audio book this year, you would do well to make it this one. Forester writes about an England that is long gone . . . but not forgotten. The middle class has its wits and its respectability to defend itself from the vagaries of a challenging world. Naturally, the middle class prefers its own company and so-called manners are merely an excuse to keep everyone else at bay. The absurdity of this way of living is highlighted when Forester takes a young Englishwoman, ... Read More: Rating:  - Predominantly sunny, pink and fluffyAs predictable and slow as it often is ARWAV has much charm. The storyline is as old as the hills- a girl of means falls for a less worthy man- but Forster's art and verve saves it from becoming steeped in sentiment. The novel is brought to life by using poetic verse and gentle humour to tantalise. The inclusion of Forster's epilogue written half a century after the book is a mistake, in my opinion. Although it is sad to leave characters the reader has grown to emphasise with it seems wrong to show their demise- I would prefer to remember them as they are. If you also feel a story of young love should stop before the future encroaches to far then I suggest you skip the epilogue. A rosy and somewhat sugary social commentary of Edwardian England ... Read More: Rating: - one of the most beautiful love stories of the 20th centuryA Room with a View was by E.M. Forster himself considered 'rather slight'. He did not do himself justice. One cannot agree with him: it is the kind of novel that reverbarates in one's mind - it has the stature of a major classic. As the story unfolds the major character learns to acknowledge her true feelings. A delicate story with beautiful philosophical insight, witty ironical social comedy and a touch of deep warmth and romance. |
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