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A Room with a View

By: E. M. Forster
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
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E. M. Forster’s celebrated social comedy explores romantic intrigue and prim propriety among a colorful cast of Edwardian characters. Lucy Honeychurch, a young English woman traveling in Italy with her stuffy chaperone aunt, finds herself constrained by the claustrophobic influence of her British guardians and attracted to the free-spirited George Emerson, whose family’s radical politics make him entirely unsuitable. Sharing a spontaneous moment of passion with him in the Italian countryside, Lucy is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires. Back in England, she is courted by a more acceptable, if stifling, suitor and soon realizes she must make a final choice between convention and passion.

(P)1998 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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“One of the most esteemed English novelists of his time.”

(Times (London))

“Forster’s keen observation of character informed the work [A Room with a View], which reflected the author’s criticism of restrictive conventional British society.”

(Merriam Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature)
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Having read A Passage to India and thoroughly enjoyed it, I embarked upon this with high hopes. However, I found the story more ponderous and less engaging, many of the main characters irritating rather than endearing.
Also, the audio quality was poor, making listening difficult: muffled at low volume, but background noise present at high.

More than a little muffled

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I enjoyed parts of this book, but found others really annoying - all those social niceties drove me mad!

Good in parts.

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