Authors: E. M. Forster
ISBN-13: 9780486284675, ISBN-10: 0486284670
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date Published: April 1995
Edition: Special Value
A graceful writer with a keen eye for the bittersweetness bound in differences of class and culture, E. M. Forster had an abbreviated but remarkably successful career as a novelist and established himself as one of England's most insightful 20th-century writers.
When Lucy Honeychurch, visiting Italy, mentions the lack of a view from her room, George Emerson and his father offer to swap. But Lucy's suspicions that the Emersons are the wrong sort of people seem confirmed when George impulsively kisses her during a picnic in the Tuscan countryside. Soon, however, thoughts of that kiss have Lucy questioning her engagement to boorish, if utterly acceptable, Cecil Vyse. All in all, the situation presents quite a muddle for a young woman who wishes to be absolutely truthfuleven when she's lying to herself about the most important aspects of life and love.
E.M. Forster's brilliant comedy of manners shines a gently ironic light on the attitudes and customs of the British middle class at the beginning of the 20th century.
Part 1 | ||
The Bertolini | 1 | |
In Santa Croce with No Baedeker | 16 | |
Music, Violets, and the Letter "S" | 35 | |
Fourth Chapter | 49 | |
Possibilities of a Pleasant Outing | 57 | |
The Reverend Arthur Beebe, the Reverend Cuthbert Eager, Mr. Emerson, Miss Eleanor Lavish, Miss Charlotte Bartlett, and Miss Lucy Honeychurch Drive Out in Carriages to See a View; Italians Drive Them | 73 | |
They Return | 88 | |
Part 2 | ||
Mediaeval | 105 | |
Lucy as a Work of Art | 124 | |
Cecil as a Humourist | 142 | |
In Mrs. Vyse's Well-Appointed Flat | 153 | |
Twelfth Chapter | 161 | |
How Miss Bartlett's Boiler Was So Tiresome | 173 | |
How Miss Lucy Faced the External Situation Bravely | 184 | |
The Disaster Within | 192 | |
Lying to George | 210 | |
Lying to Cecil | 221 | |
Lying to Mr. Beebe, Mrs. Honeychurch, Freddy, and the Servants | 229 | |
Lying to Mr. Emerson | 250 | |
The End of the Middle Ages | 271 |