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A sunny, brilliantly witty comedy of manners, this edition of A Room with a View is part of the Penguin Essentials collection and features beautiful cover art by Chris Silas Neal

''You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you . . .''
Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance.

Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Pertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney Signora, curious Mr Emerson and, most of all, his passionate son George.

Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy and the repressed morals of Victorian England, personified in her terminally dull fiancé Cecil Vyse. Will she ever learn to follow her own heart?

''He says, and even more implies, things that no other novelist does, and we

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I loved it. My first intimation of the possibilities of fiction -- Zadie Smith
He says, and even more implies, things that no other novelist does, and we can go on reading Forster indefinitely * The Times *

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 7 April 2011
      ISBN-13 9780241951484
      978-0241951484
      ISBN-10 0241951488
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      Romance Books by E M Forster

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A sunny, brilliantly witty comedy of manners, this edition of A Room with a View is part of the Penguin Essentials collection and features beautiful cover art by Chris Silas Neal

      ''You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you . . .''
      Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance.

      Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Pertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney Signora, curious Mr Emerson and, most of all, his passionate son George.

      Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy and the repressed morals of Victorian England, personified in her terminally dull fiancé Cecil Vyse. Will she ever learn to follow her own heart?

      ''He says, and even more implies, things that no other novelist does, and we

      Trade Review
      I loved it. My first intimation of the possibilities of fiction -- Zadie Smith
      He says, and even more implies, things that no other novelist does, and we can go on reading Forster indefinitely * The Times *

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