A Room With a View by E. M. Forster; Unabridged MP3 Audio Book; Narrator Frederick Davidson

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.

“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

“One of Forster’s earliest and most celebrated works.” —Ingram

E. M. Forster (1879-1970) was born in London and attended Cambridge University. Where Angels Fear to Tread and A Room with a View were published before he achieved his first major success with Howards End in 1910. During WWI he made two trips to India, from which his last novel, A Passage to India, was conceptualized.