Something tremendous has happened...
Written: Aug 22 '01
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Pros: For closet romantics everywhere!
Cons: None
The Bottom Line: Classic scene: where Lucy dumps her fiancée for not playing tennis!!
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| britbird's Full Review: E. M. Forster and Malcolm Bradbury - A Room With a... |
...and with these words, uttered overlooking the Arno, the entanglement of Lucy Honeychurch and George Emerson begins.
This classic EM Forster novel set, for the main, in middle-class Victorian suburban England follows the awakening of Lucy as she is exposed to life outside the sleepy little town she has lived all her life.
With her socially-correct mother, stiff and awkward cousin and chaperone, and 'suitable' fiancée, Lucy's life is pretty much mapped out for her until she encounters George and his father in the tumultuous and romantic setting of Florence.
Her Italian encounter seeks to haunt her all the way back home and Forster then accounts her struggle to assimilate what she has seen and learned of life and love - and tries to return to her quiet life in the country.
Gradually her defenses come tumbling down and she finally succumbs to her feelings and love for George - despite the fact he is seen as a class below her ('their sort of people' as Rev Beebe describes them).
A classic romance, touched with an incisive wit and observation of middle England of the early 1900s in all its glory and failings.
Recommended:
Yes
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