A Room with a View Author: [UK] EM Forster Publisher: Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House

EM Forster, British national writer

Haruki Murakami has won 22 Nobel Prizes, but he has yet to surpass him

This book was selected into "Modern Library's Top 100 English Novels of the 20th Century"

A brilliant and beautiful love story

❤️Editor's recommendation

◎EM Forster, a famous British novelist in the 20th century, was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature 22 times and was nominated more times as a runner-up than Haruki Murakami.

◎ "A Room with a View" is the novel that he spent the longest time conceiving and is his favorite. The author admits that his success was due to the success of this book, which was selected as one of the "Top 100 English Novels of the 20th Century in Modern Library".

◎ See how the master writes the love story between the poor boy and the rich girl in a brilliant and beautiful way

Under Forster's ingenious story structure, through clear or implicit contrast, the life of the British Edwardian middle class is revealed one by one: secular routines and passions, Italians and British tourists, the room itself and the scenery outside;

In Forster's fresh and subtle writing style, various characters appear one after another. The heroine Lucy breaks free from her shackles and stages a soul-stirring love story. The image of Lucy is particularly unforgettable, as if we are also being led by her to cross some kind of spiritual boundary.

In the happy ending, the restrained Forster is still wary of happiness: although Lucy and George are together, there is always something unpredictable, disturbing, yet lingering and unforgettable in life.

◎ The film of the same name was released in 1985, with a stellar cast including Helena Bonham Carter and Daniel Day-Lewis. In 1987, it won the Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction, and Best Costume Design, and was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Cinematography.

◎ Round spine hardcover, with selected special paper for dust jacket, inner cover and endpapers, four-color printing on the book edges, and gold stamping on the top and bottom. The front and back of the dust jacket are partially hollowed out, and the cutouts are decorated with gold stamping to reveal the scenery on the inner cover, which echoes the title of the book.

❤️Content Introduction

This book tells a love story that takes place in Italy and England. Lucy, a middle-class British lady, travels to Florence, Italy with her cousin and stays in a hotel with a father and son. Lucy complains that her room cannot overlook the beautiful city, and the father and son are willing to exchange rooms with them. After a period of contact, George fell in love with Lucy. Lucy rejected George's confession due to the constraints of British etiquette. After returning to England, Lucy got engaged to Celcy, but during the process of getting along, Lucy found it difficult to accept Celcy. Later, Lucy met George again, and her feelings were unstoppable. Finally, she decided to break through traditional customs, cancel the existing engagement, and finally married George.

❤️Media recommendation

Mr. Forster's gift for finding the comic in common social situations is genius, the more so when one considers how effortless and without exaggeration he is in it.

——The Observer

One of the most respected British novelists of his generation.

--"era"

❤️Celebrity recommendation

In EM Forster's A Room with a View I first became aware of the possibilities of fiction: how a person can feel about it, how it can change the reader through reading it.

—Zadi Smith

As time goes by, we will watch to see whether Forster fulfills his promise and aligns himself with one of the two camps to which most poets belong. Roughly speaking, we can divide them into two groups: the preachers and teachers who gather under the banner of Tolstoy and Dickens; the pure artists who are led by Austen and Turgenev. Forster seems to have a strong impulse to belong to both camps at the same time. He has many of the instincts and insights of a pure artist - a beautiful and elegant style, a subtle and keen sense of comedy, an ability to sketch out characters with a few strokes and make them live in their own environment. But at the same time, he is very careful to follow the principle of showing us that there is another beautiful scene behind the colorful talents and emotions.

—Virginia Woolf

These two novels (A Room with a View and Where Angels Fear to Tread) - Forster's early masterpieces - combine the social comedy of Jane Austen with the passion of DH Lawrence, set in the timeless Tuscan landscape.

—Ann Pasternak Slater