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A review by abeerhoque
A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
4.0
I listened to "A Room with a View" by E.M. Forster on audiobook. Written in 1908, it tells the age old story of a girl who has to choose between the socially acceptable and her heart/mind.
"It is a great opportunity, the possession of leisure."
The story starts in Florence, where the naive young Lucy Honeychurch meets the brutally honest George Emerson, and has a brief moment (and I do mean moment, as lovely as it is) of passion with him.
"The garden of Eden which we say is in the past is yet to come. We shall be equal when we stop despising our bodies."
It then continues to the English countryside, where Lucy decides to marry the stodgy Cecil Vyse (him of good snobby stock) but has all her plans upended by George's arrival and ardent engagements.
"Choose a place where you don't do very much harm and stand there for all you're worth facing the sunshine."
The landscape is beautifully laid out, and the language is precise and hilarious, in that way only the English can describe.
"She gave up trying to understand herself and joined the vast armies of the benighted who followed neither the heart nor the brain and march to their destinies by catchwords."
E.M. Forster skewers society and its stuffy hierarchies and mincing debates, and not a bit of is dated, despite the Edwardian era. If you like this sort of thing - clever funny period pieces that resonate in the modern world, I highly recommend this book.
"It is a great opportunity, the possession of leisure."
The story starts in Florence, where the naive young Lucy Honeychurch meets the brutally honest George Emerson, and has a brief moment (and I do mean moment, as lovely as it is) of passion with him.
"The garden of Eden which we say is in the past is yet to come. We shall be equal when we stop despising our bodies."
It then continues to the English countryside, where Lucy decides to marry the stodgy Cecil Vyse (him of good snobby stock) but has all her plans upended by George's arrival and ardent engagements.
"Choose a place where you don't do very much harm and stand there for all you're worth facing the sunshine."
The landscape is beautifully laid out, and the language is precise and hilarious, in that way only the English can describe.
"She gave up trying to understand herself and joined the vast armies of the benighted who followed neither the heart nor the brain and march to their destinies by catchwords."
E.M. Forster skewers society and its stuffy hierarchies and mincing debates, and not a bit of is dated, despite the Edwardian era. If you like this sort of thing - clever funny period pieces that resonate in the modern world, I highly recommend this book.