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  • A Room with a View

  • By: E. M. Forster
  • Narrated by: Rebecca Hall
  • Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (888 ratings)

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A Room with a View

By: E. M. Forster
Narrated by: Rebecca Hall
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Summary

In this rich new audio production, acclaimed British American actress Rebecca Hall brings one of E. M. Forster's most admired works to life in this classic tale of human struggle.

A charming young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch, is wooed by both free-spirited George Emerson and wealthy Cecil Vyse while vacationing in Italy. Though attracted to George, Lucy becomes engaged to Cecil despite twice turning down his proposals. On hearing of the news, George confesses his love, leaving Lucy torn between marrying the more socially acceptable Cecil or George, the man she knows would bring her true happiness. Should Lucy choose social acceptance or true love?

It's both the quintessential Edwardian love story and a classic piece of social comedy, in which Forster is concerned with one of his favorite themes: the "undeveloped heart" of the English middle classes, here represented by a group of tourists and expatriates in Florence. Forster's disapproval of the era's restrictive conventions is reflected through his strong observation of character and society.

A Room with a View was ranked 79th on the Modern Library's list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The 1985 film adaptation by James Ivory won three Oscars.

Narrator Biography
Rebecca Hall is an award-winning British-American actress with extensive credits in stage and screen, including leading roles in Christine, Professor Marston & the Wonder Women, Frost/Nixon, and Vicky Christina Barcelona. As the daughter of two theater veterans - the stage director and Royal Shakespeare Company founder Peter Hall and the opera singer Maria Ewing - Rebecca began acting from an early age, and her mastery of the craft is on full display in her nuanced performance of A Room With a View, her debut audiobook narration.

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Forgotten How Good This Book Was...

What a wonderful and thought provoking story.

Rebecca Hall does an excellent job of reading this and it’s definitely a book I will come back to.

It’s also made me go back to other books written by the author.

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Just okay

The writing was rich but dense. The dialogue evasive. Which I get was part of the point. But it just didn't hook me. But I did like it, because when it was good it was very, very good.

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Takes a while to get into, great story in the end

This is the second of E.M. Forster's work I've read after 'The Machine Stops' which I thoroughly enjoyed. This is a very different kind of story to that, and it took me a while to get into it, but in the end I really enjoyed it. I think the second part was preferable to the first, although that may just be that I was used to the narrator and characters by that point.

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Beautifully read

listening to Rebecca Hall was fantastic, took me back and felt like I could envisage the film with the characters, she did some brilliant voices throughout. really enjoyed it

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very entertaining

Love Rebecca Hall as a performer, and impossible not to picture her as the heroine.

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Beautiful retelling

A classic romance, beautifully told both in the written word and the spoken one. What more can you ask for?

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Disappointing narration

I was disappointed by this. I hadn't realised that Rebecca Hall has a lisp, I'm obsessing over the lisp, not listening to the story.

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A lovely, gently funny book

I came to A Room with a View through the film, and was delighted to find the book better, sweeter and sharper than the movie.

It’s a sweet book because nothing much goes wrong. It’s a sharp book because it is forensic in its depiction of the idiosyncrasies of the middle classes. And it’s a funny book because it gently mocks these people and their mildly eccentric behaviour, prizing manners over happiness. It concludes love and kindness are more important than intellect and pomposity. And that sometimes you have to be honest and learn to think for yourself and take responsibility for your own actions.

Many have criticised the narration. I think it is competent, echoing the voices of those in the film adaptation.

Mainly I think that I came across this recording on a day I felt sad, and by the evening I felt happier, and for that I’m very grateful indeed. If you listen to this, I think you’ll enjoy it.

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Rebecca Hall is an exceptional narrator.

Loved everything about this Audio Book.Have seen the film but this was a delight and much more insightful.

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Lovely story, a little tedious to listen to.

Having only ever seen the film adaptation of this book I thought I would try listening to it. Listening to the sweet gentility of a bygone era is a little cloying. I was really irked though at the class and race divide that was. You think I would know better than to be annoyed being a history scholar.

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