Room With A View
Download Room With A View PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Room With A View book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages.
A Room with a View Illustrated
Author: E M Forster
language: en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date: 2021-01-24
A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the restrained culture of Edwardian era England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a humorous critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. Merchant Ivory produced an award-winning film adaptation in 1985.The Modern Library ranked A Room with a View 79th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century (1998).
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf's seminal essay, "A Room of One's Own," is a pioneering exploration of the intersection between gender and literary creation. Utilizing a stream-of-consciousness narrative style, Woolf weaves together personal anecdotes, fiction, and socio-political commentary to assert that women require financial independence and personal space to cultivate their creativity. Set against the backdrop of early 20th-century feminist thought, this work serves as both a manifesto and meditative piece, dissecting the historical barriers that have hindered women's contributions to literature and society, while advocating for their rightful place in the artistic canon. Woolf, a key figure in the modernist movement, crafted this essay drawing from her extensive experiences in the Bloomsbury Group and her immersion in the literary realm. Her awareness of the limitations imposed on women in literature, coupled with her personal struggles as an author, profoundly influenced her arguments. Woolf's unique ability to synthesize personal reflection with broader societal critique makes her work not only a reflection of her era but also a lasting statement on the enduring complexities of gender. A must-read for anyone interested in feminist literature, "A Room of One's Own" invites readers to contemplate the social constructs surrounding creativity and gender. Woolf's eloquent prose and incisive observations illuminate the obstacles faced by women writers, making this text essential for understanding the evolution of literary discourse and the imperative for inclusive representation in all artistic endeavors.
A Room with a View, Where Angels Fear to Tread
E. M. Forster’s beloved Italian novels, now in an Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics single hardcover volume. Forster’s most memorably romantic exploration of the liberating effects of Italy on the English, A Room with a View follows the carefully chaperoned Lucy Honeychurch to Florence. There she meets the unconventional George Emerson and finds herself inspired by his refreshingly free spirit— which puts her in mind of “a room with a view”—to escape the claustrophobic snobbery of her guardians back in England. The wicked tragicomedy Where Angels Fear to Tread chronicles a young English widow’s trip to Italy and its messy aftermath. When Lilia Herriton impulsively marries a penniless Italian and then dies in childbirth, her first husband’s family sets out to rescue the child from his “uncivilized” surroundings. But in ways that they can’t possibly imagine, their narrow preconceptions will be upended by the rich and varied charms of Forster’s cherished Italy. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.