A Room with a View: Unabridged

One of E.M. Forster's most beloved and critically-acclaimed works, "A Room With a View" follows the journeys—both abroad and romantically—of young Lucy Honeychurch, a British girl during the Edwardian era with a distinctly independent nature. On a trip to Italy, with her chaperone Miss Charlotte Bartlett in tow, Lucy encounters a Mr. Emerson and his son George. Both men are free-thinkers, unbound by the strictures of the day, and as they continue to run into each other on the trip, Lucy starts to become secretly enamored of George. After witnessing a murder in Florence—from which chaotic scene George rescues her—Lucy accidentally stumbles upon him again in a field during a sojourn to the country. Overcome by both her beauty and the natural beauty surrounding them, George kisses Lucy, an event witnessed by a truly shocked Charlotte, and the couple parts, Lucy returning to England. Once again home, Lucy becomes engaged to the snobbish and rather pretentious Cecil...and then learns that t