- British, Fiction, Young women, British in fiction
Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her, until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Bertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney Signora, curious Mr Emerson and, most of all, his passionate son George. Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy and the repressed morals of Edwardian England, personified in her terminally dull fiancé Cecil Vyse. Will she ever learn to follow her own heart?
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- Author
- E. M. Forster
- First published
- July 13, 2007
- Pages
- 204
- Publisher
- Lulu.com, V-Publisher, Blackstone Audiobooks
- Editions
- 755
- Language
- Spanish, Chinese, English, Italian
- ISBN
- 9798643999287
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“The Signora had no business to do it, said Miss Bartlett, no business at all.”
Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH, was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy and also the attitudes towards gender and homosexuality in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect".
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