A Room with a View With A New Introduction By David Leavitt

Wit and intelligence are the hallmarks of this probing portrait of the English character. In this story of extreme contrasts - in values, social class, and cultural perspectives - an unconventional romantic relationship leads to conventional happiness in a delightful social comedy. While touring Italy with her overbearing cousin, well-bred Lucy Honeychurch falls in love with handsome but unsuitable George Emerson, only to become engaged to haughty Cecil Vyse. But Lucy is lured away from the conventions of upper-middle-class Edwardian society by her yearnings for the cleark she left behind. A Room With A View satirizes the English notion of respectability - and remains Forster's most beloved novel and a twentieth-centiry classic. -- back cover.