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A Room with a View

E. M. Forster · 1908 CE · Novel · English · Modernist

Lucy Honeychurch and her cousin Charlotte arrive at a Florence pension with rooms facing a courtyard, and an ill-mannered old man and his son offer to swap for their view. A murder in the Piazza Signoria and a carriage ride into the violets above Fiesole leave Lucy with something she has agreed with everyone to call nothing, and she goes home to Surrey and an engagement to a cultivated man. Forster worked at it for years under the name of the Lucy novel before the Italian and English halves fitted together.

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Genre
RomanceComedy
Theme
LoveComing of AgeIndividual vs SocietyAppearance vs RealityClass & Inequality
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
HeroineLoverMentor
Plot structure
BildungsromanComic Resolution
Symbol / motif
The HouseThe GardenFlowers
Conflict
vs Selfvs Society
Mode / tone
ComicRealistRomantic
Culture / tradition
English

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