A Room with a View in Classics Without All the Class

Oct 28, 2012 Dioni rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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A Room with a View was published in 1908, and my copy is the pictured beautiful Penguin English Library edition. I read this following the Edx course with BerkeleyX Book Club. BerkeleyX has focused on a few books for their book club programme, but this is the first time when the timing was right for me. It doesn't quite work like traditional book club - at least not for me - as I found the discussion thread format a bit clunky and not e ...more

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Sep 10, 2013 Nanci Svensson rated it really liked it

It's really 4,5 stars. Turns out that the horrible movie was not Forster's fault, but everyone else involved should be hanged; I was perfectly enchanted by this Roman Culture-o-Philic novel. Ah, I pity the fall of the (more recent) Empire, the aristocracy snubs each other so masterly sublime!

Actually, it would be fun to take any novel by Forster, Maugham, Waugh or Henry James and substitute the man whore synonym "cad" with "douche bag". But I'm digressing. ...more

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Jan 13, 2010 Kristi Krumnow rated it really liked it

Shelves: classic-lit, rereading

3.5

George Emerson - check.
Cecil Vyse - yuck.

Was chaperone Miss Charlotte Bartlett truly making a match as Miss Lucy Honeychurch had assessed? We will never know... A novel that attempts breaking the stereotypical ladies novel, in the end reaffirms it. The time period of Room with a View's revolutionary writing merely allowed for Lucy Honeychurch to "change her mind." It is a step. ...more

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