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A Room with a View by E. M. Forster'""But you do,"" he went on, not waiting for contradiction. ""You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you, and no other word expresses it ...""Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Bertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney Signora, curious Mr Emerson and, most of all, his passionate son George.Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy and the repressed morals of Edwardian England, personified in her terminally dull fiancé Cecil Vyse. Will she ever learn to follow her own heart?The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

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E. M. Forster (1879-1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist, and librettist. He is best known for his novels A Passage to India, Howards End, and A Room with a View. Forster's works often explore themes of class, social conventions, personal relationships, and the clash between individual desires and societal expectations. His writing is noted for its keen social insight, subtle character development, and exploration of human connections across cultural and societal boundaries. Forster was also an advocate for liberal humanism and remained an influential figure in 20th-century English literature

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