Room with a View (version 2)

Author(s)

• E. M. Forster

The 1908 novel A Room With a View is the story of Lucy Honeychurch, a young English girl traveling to Italy for the first time. While staying in Florence, Lucy meets the unconventional George Emerson, with whom she shares a single passionate kiss, much to the horror of her chaperone, her spinsterish cousin Charlotte. Back in England, Lucy finds she must choose between George and her rather stuffy fiance Cecil Vyse. Forster's wonderfully comic romance satirizes turn-of-the-century English culture (as did his other major novel of the period, Howards End). (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

1. The Bertolini
2. In Santa Croce With No Baedeker
3. Music, Violets, and the Letter S
4. Fourth Chapter
5. Possibilities of a Pleasant Outing
6. The Reverend Arthur Beebe, the Reverend Cuthbert Eager, Mr Emerson, Mr George Emerson, Miss Eleanor Lavish, Miss Charlotte Bartlett, and Miss Lucy Honeychurch, Drive out in Carriages to see a View: Italians Drive them
7. They Return
8. Medieval
9. Lucy as a Work of Art
10. Cecil as a Humorist
11. In Mrs. Vyse's Well-Appointed Flat
12. Twelfth Chapter
13. How Miss Bartlett's Boiler Was So Tiresome
14. How Lucy Faced the External Situation Bravely
15. The Disaster Within
16. Lying to George
17. Lying to Cecil
18. Lying to Mr Beebe, Mrs Honeychurch, Freddy, and the Servants
19. Lying to Mr Emerson
20. The End of the Middle Ages