A Room With a View
Unabridged Original Classic Edition
by E. M. Forster
One of Forster’s earlier works, A Room with a View (1908) has demonstrated enduring popularity arising from the vivid cast of characters, humorous dialogue, and comedic commentary on the restrained culture of Edwardian-era England and fixation on “propriety” among the minor gentry. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a humorous critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century.
The novel opens in Florence with Miss Lucy Honeychurch, touring Italy with her spinster cousin and chaperone, Miss Charlotte Bartlett complaining about their rooms at the Pensione Bertolini, where they were promised rooms with a view of the River Arno but are instead given rooms overlooking a drab courtyard. Another guest, Mr. Emerson, offers to swap rooms, as he and his son, George, have rooms with views of the river. Charlotte rejects the offer, offended by Mr. Emerson’s lack of tact and propriety and fearing they would be placed under an “unseemly obligation”. Another guest, Mr. Beebe, an Anglican clergyman, persuades Charlotte to accept the offer. Continue reading “A Room With a View”
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Joseph Smith “J. S.” Fletcher (1863-1935) was one of the most popular English authors of the “Golden Age of Mysteries” and a prolific writer who published a total of 237 books, 120 of them mystery and detective novels. As a young journalist Fletcher reported on numerous police court and coroner’s inquest proceedings and became an authority on the old Yorkshire dialect and the many villages and towns of Northern England, publishing a history of Halifax and a six-voulme history of Yorkshire. Later, working in London, Fletcher immersed himself in the daily affairs of the various social classes and institutions of the city. This background gave Fletcher’s many novels a uniquely detailed and colorful depiction of the varied settings and local characters in his stories, which were characterized by intricate plots with unexpected but plausible twists and a sprinkling of red herrings. 
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