A Room With a View
First published 1908 · English · 130 pages
- Novels
- Love and romance
- Travel
A comic novel of manners about Lucy Honeychurch, a young Englishwoman visiting Florence with her anxious older cousin as chaperone. In a boarding house she meets the Emersons, a father and son whose frank, unconventional ways unsettle her. Back in the English countryside, she faces a choice between a polished, controlling suitor and the freer life that Italy has shown her. Forster gently mocks social propriety while celebrating honest feeling, and the book remains one of his warmest and most accessible works.
Quotes
It isn't possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
tones. “We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows.
The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.