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A Room with A View (Barnes & Noble Classics (Paperback))
by: E. M. Forster

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781593082888
ISBN: 1593082886
Label: Barnes & Noble
Manufacturer: Barnes & Noble
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: April 01, 2005
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Studio: Barnes & Noble
Sales Rank: 118084

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Mostly very dull
I read this purely because of the Italian setting, though only the first section is set there, in Florence. A lot of action then takes place "off-set" as it were in Rome, before the setting transfers to England. I found most of the characters rather irritating and the situations esp in the England section very dull, though there are a few funny moments due to the ridiculous snobbery of some of them.

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- The best drug
It'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.

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- Room with a View
This 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!

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- Spectacular Reading by Joanna David
It'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:

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- Predominantly sunny, pink and fluffy
As 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:

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