A Room with a View in Around the World in 80 Books

Oct 30, 2006 Elizabeth rated it it was amazing

Shelves: classics, fiction, italy, alltimefavorites, edwardiannovels

Great book about some quirky people rambling through the Italian countryside.

Re-read this book this summer. I found the message more feminist than I remembered.

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Aug 19, 2021 superawesomekt rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: ehrtbm-challenge

Lucy Honeychurch: "The world is certainly full of beautiful things, if only I could come across them."

Mr. Beebe: "If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays [the piano], it will be very exciting both for us and for her."

So can you guess what takes place over the course of Forster's sensuous and satirical novel? Forster loves to skewer the British classes and there is no better place for it than following British tourists in Florence, Italy and back again.

Lucy Honeychurch is in many ways ...more

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Aug 03, 2014 Suvi rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: novels, 1900-1939, _great-britain, _europe-southern

Edit 15/8/2014 Watched the film. Freddy! Young Julian Sands! Pond scene! So much fun.

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A light Edwardian comedy with an ordinary romantic situation, but Forster makes even romance tolerable with his fun over the top characters and satirical jabs at the conventions of the stuffy society. His writing is also polished and clear as always. I don't completely approve Forster's idea of the Dark Army, though (makes me question if he was serious about that).

The first part that takes place in Italy wa ...more

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Jan 23, 2008 Sarah rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: owned, 1001-must-read, classics, page-to-screen

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Aug 06, 2007 Jen rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, classic-fiction, british-literature, books-that-changed-me

This book is kind of special to me, not because the story is so amazing (although I do love it) but because I credit this book with sparking my interest in English literature which I now love so much. My freshman year of high school, I began a weird habit that has stayed with me throughout my academic life. Whenever I have a big test to study for or a big project to do, I procrastinate by reading something else. It all started with A Room With A View. I was perusing my parents bookshelf and this ...more

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Mar 19, 2015 Erica rated it liked it

One of those rare occasions when the (Masterpiece Classic) movie is better than the book. I had a hard time with this book's anti-intellectualness, its 1910s standard gender dynamic, the flighty-silliness of it. [Note: I read the free Kindle edition. I am not sure if it was fully representative of the original.] ...more

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Aug 18, 2009 Erin (NY) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: books-i-own, classics, book-club

This was an interesting love-story given the time it was written. It was interesting to see the relationships between the different socio-economic classes. The part that was the most interesting to me was how this book was so progressive for its time, but yet from a modern-perspective it is still so old fashioned. It was a nice mix.

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Jul 27, 2012 superawesomekt rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, book-club

This book was not what I expected, but it was my first foray into Forster. Much more sensual than James or Wharton, but still a similar theme: classes vs equality, hypocrisy, and, of course, romance.

I really enjoyed it and want to reread it immediately. Also I want to go to Italy now and stand in a field of violets :)

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Jan 30, 2011 mstan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: rereads, favourites, lit-ty, british, kindle, src-summer-2011

I read this when I was a lot younger (I think in my early 20s), and gave it four stars. Now I give it five. I love the Emersons, the tremulous relationships, the gentle way in which Forster treats soul-changing subjects.

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