A Room with a View

Room with a view ( in the original English A Room with a View) is a novel by EM Forster from 1908. It tells the story of a young Englishwoman from Edwardian, whose encounter with a handsome young man in Florence to conflict with their wedding plans leads.

Side Note

Towards the end of the Forster 's characters cite some unspecified assigned verses ( " Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height", etc.). They come from Alfred Tennyson's ballad The Princess.

Filming

The novel was made ​​into a film in 1985, directed by James Ivory. As an actor, worked with Maggie Smith (as Charlotte Bartlett ), Helena Bonham Carter ( as Lucy Honeychurch ), Denholm Elliott (as Mr. Emerson ), Julian Sands (as George Emerson ), Simon Callow (as Mr. Beebe ), Judi Dench (as Eleanor Lavish ) and Daniel Day-Lewis (as Cecil Vyse ).

Book editions (selection)

• Room with a view. A love story. Translated by Werner Pete Rich. Nymphenburg, Munich, 1986, ISBN 3-485-00942-3; Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-15900-8.
• A Room With a View. Introduction by Malcolm Bradbury. Penguin Classics, New York 2000, ISBN 0-14-118329-2.
• A Room with a View. The original English version in full. Audio CD. Bertz Fischer, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86505-558-3 (Audiobook, read by Wanda McCaddon ).