A Room with a View
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Narrated by:
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Rebecca Hall
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By:
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E. M. Forster
About this listen
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.
What was harder to cope with was the reading performance. The reader injects very little interest into the reading and at times seems to be encountering sentences without a full understanding of them. Her differentiating between the voices of the different characters is slight (particularly between the male characters) and in places disappears altogether. She doesn't give the listener any impression that she enjoyed the book. Perhaps she didn't? It may be that this reading has suffered in my estimation by comparison with Miriam Margolyes's truly outstanding interpretation of Bleak House which I finished not long before but I cannot recommend this version of a very enjoyable book.
A good book let down by a poor reading
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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.
Forgotten How Good This Book Was...
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Unsatisfactory narration
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Bellissimo
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Satisfying reliable classic beautifully narrated
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