A Room With A View
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This 1908 novel is about a young woman in the repressed society of Edwardian England. The setting is both Italy and England. Two cousins travel to Italy. Their hotel rooms have no view and they change rooms with two additional gentlemen. Sounds harmless, but at the beginning to the 20^th century this was unseemly. After several plot twists the girls return to England with one of them engaged to a proper Englishman, but the man she met in Italy shows up. The tale concludes with an elopement to Italy.
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I was forced to read this book for an English assignment in ninth grade. It took me forever to read because it didn’t show any point to me. The characters were very confusing and ahrd to keep up with. I never really got into the book because it was so dull. I basically read the words on the page and didn’t take anything in because I couldn’t. Please don’t waste your time on this book. Read something from Michael Crichton as a replacement for.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This is another one of persons so called “classics” that continue to be overrated based on the fact that they are “classics.” Not to be confused with more deserving titles that make one marvel how a body of work can sound so fresh and accomplished after 50, 100, 200 + years, this particular work should be place on the bookshelf along with Count of Monte Cristo, Tarzan, The Lost World, etc. that are written by legendary and gifted writers but in their off days, or off years for that matter.
This book is hard to get into and that is the beginning and the end of it. This is literature not a scientific endevour.
If the manuscript were submitted for publication today, it would either not see the light of day or first get edited into shape and out of recognition. Tale is excellent. Storytelling needed much better effort.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
maybe i could have loved this book if i could have understood. i’m a high school freshmen in honor’s english and i was forced to pick out a classic novel to do a critique on. unfortunatly, i read peoples reviews on this book and it sounded excellent. don’t get caught up in the web of dull-ness. maybe if you’re an english scholar you’re know this book, but being just a normal teenager, i sure didn’t. i establish myself falling asleep many times while reading this book, so i was forced to prop my eyelids open with toothpicks and snack on a variety of candies just to stay consious. take my advice and do yourself a favor, READ SOMETHING ELSE.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Britain’s answer to Henry James here provides us with the tale of Lucy Honeychurch and her forbidden like for George Emerson, the unbefitting young man she meets in Italy. While social mores dictate that she make a match with the more proper gentleman, Cecil Vyse, who is courting her, Lucy is torn between passion and propriety. Ultimately, she chooses Emerson who reminds her of “a room with a view” offering her a new vista on life.
This is a comedy of manners, as we can see from the subtlety of characters names: Vyse represents the forceful vice-like society, Emerson is “scenery” a la Ralph Waldo & Thoureau. And, of course, the lesson we learn is that the entrenched morals of society should be thrown away in favor of passion & the natural. This common theme of the top 100–we’ve seen it in Edith Wharton, & others–seems even more moronic as we close the century, the elevation of passion over morality has never looked worse than in the wake of the Clinton scandals. Further, as we now know, this admonition must be read in light of Forster’s own homosexuality, adding an altogether different cast to the call for discarding social convention.
If you feel compelled to read Forster, I advise sticking to A Passage to India.
GRADE: D
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
The book was rather odd. I read it for class and didn’t find it that appealing.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5