A Room with a View
E. M. Forster, 1908
E. M. Forster’s comic novel of Lucy Honeychurch, a young Englishwoman who meets the unconventional Emersons, father and son, in a pension in Florence, and who must later choose, back home in Surrey, between the life expected of her and her own feelings.
Famous quotes
It is so difficult—at least, I find it difficult—to understand people who speak the truth.
Part One, Chapter IIn contextBy the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes—a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
Part One, Chapter IIIn contextThere’s enough sorrow in the world, isn’t there, without trying to invent it.
Part One, Chapter IIIn context- Part One, Chapter IIIIn context
- Part Two, Chapter XIVIn context
- Part Two, Chapter XIXIn context
Contents
Part One
- Chapter IThe Bertolini
- Chapter IIIn Santa Croce with No Baedeker
- Chapter IIIMusic, Violets, and the Letter “S”
- Chapter IVFourth Chapter
- Chapter VPossibilities of a Pleasant Outing
- Chapter VIThe 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
- Chapter VIIThey Return
Part Two
- Chapter VIIIMedieval
- Chapter IXLucy As a Work of Art
- Chapter XCecil as a Humourist
- Chapter XIIn Mrs. Vyse’s Well-Appointed Flat
- Chapter XIITwelfth Chapter
- Chapter XIIIHow Miss Bartlett’s Boiler Was So Tiresome
- Chapter XIVHow Lucy Faced the External Situation Bravely
- Chapter XVThe Disaster Within
- Chapter XVILying to George
- Chapter XVIILying to Cecil
- Chapter XVIIILying to Mr. Beebe, Mrs. Honeychurch, Freddy, and The Servants
- Chapter XIXLying to Mr. Emerson
- Chapter XXThe End of the Middle Ages