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A Room with a View
- Narrated by: Joanna David
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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The story of a young and affluent middle-class girl, Lucy Honeychurch is wooed by George Emerson and Cecil Vyse whilst vacationing in Italy. Though attracted to George, Lucy becomes engaged to Cecil despite twice turning down his proposals. On hearing of the news, George confesses his love, leaving Lucy torn between marrying the more socially acceptable Cecil, or George, the man she knows would bring her true happiness.
In this piece of social comedy, E. M. Forster is concerned with one of his favourite themes: the 'undeveloped heart' of the English middle classes, who are here represented by a group of tourists and expatriates in Florence.
One of Forster's most admired works, here brought vividly to life by narrator Joanna David, it is a classic tale of human struggle. Should Lucy choose social acceptance or true love? Forster's disapproval of the restrictive conventions of British society are mirrored in the novel through his strong observation of character and society.
A Room with a View was ranked 79th on the Modern Library's list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The 1985 film adaptation by James Ivory won three Oscars.
Narrator Biography
Joanna has an extensive array of credits over stage, film and television. Her more recent television appearances include The Living and the Dead, Death in Paradise and Downton Abbey. She has worked with many great film directors, for example, Woody Allen on You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger in 2010. Her more recent film work includes Another Mother's Son and The Boy with the Topknot . Joanna is vice-president of the Theatrical Guild.
Joanna David has narrated a number of Audible favourites including Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Hilary Boyd’s Thursdays in the Park.
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- 20-04-2018
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Love, love, loved it. Great story, well told by the actors. Answered the eternal why for me.
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- Sister Luke
- 01-11-2023
all right
<b>2.5</b>
Impeccable writing, but left me mostly unmoved. I note that EM Forster's line of social criticism is almost identical to that presented by the similarly initialled but far less known EF Benson in the Colin books, in which the cold, dreary English, encapsulating the hypocrisy of propriety and piety and intellect and convention, are set in the midst of warm, sunny Italy, celebrating the body and passion and spontaneity and authenticity. This protest is here apparently made for the sake of normal love between a man and a woman, but was in fact, unbenownst to the contemporary readership, driven by the deviant lusts which both Forster and Benson harboured. Which really vitiates the whole critique, doesn't it? Ulterior motives and all that. Unfortunately it matters not, for it had its intended effect, and effectually paved the way for all the ruin that would follow...
I liked Freddy.
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