The cover page is adapted from Florence, the Boboli Gardens, a painting completed circa 1835 by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste-Camille_Corotwww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
A Room With a View
章节(20)
- Part I: I: The Bertolini 0:00
- II: In Santa Croce with No Baedeker 25:44
- III: Music, Violets, and the Letter S 58:46
- IV: Fourth Chapter 1:21:30
- V: Possibilities of a Pleasant Outing 1:36:25
- VI: The Reverend Arthur Beebe, the Reverend Cuthbert Eager, Mr. Emerson, Mr. George Emerson, Miss Eleanor Lavish, Miss Charlotte Bartlett, and Miss Lucy Honeychurch Drive Out in Carriages to See a View; Italians Drive Them 2:02:47
- VII: They Return 2:27:34
- Part II: VIII: Medieval 2:51:58
- IX: Lucy as a Work of Art 3:23:25
- X: Cecil as a Humourist 3:51:58
- XI: In Mrs. Vyse’s Well-Appointed Flat 4:11:37
- XII: Twelfth Chapter 4:23:29
- XIII: How Miss Bartlett’s Boiler Was So Tiresome 4:44:21
- XIV: How Lucy Faced the External Situation Bravely 5:01:58
- XV: The Disaster Within 5:15:18
- XVI: Lying to George 5:45:06
- XVII: Lying to Cecil 6:03:20
- XVIII: Lying to Mr. Beebe, Mrs. Honeychurch, Freddy, and the Servants 6:16:48
- XIX: Lying to Mr. Emerson 6:51:57
- XX: The End of the Middle Ages 7:26:25
A Room With a View, perhaps E. M. Forster’s lightest novel, was also one long in gestation—he began it as early as 1901, and only published it in 1908.
In it we meet young Lucy Honeychurch and her cousin Charlotte Bartlett, who have gone on tour to Italy. During their stay they meet a series of interesting characters, including George Emerson, the son of an eccentric gentleman. The conflict between Lucy’s choice of the unusual George, or her more conventional English suitor Cecil, forms the crux of Forster’s critique of contemporary English society.
Despite the novel being a societal critique, the prose is light and studded with Forster’s easy witticisms. In 1958 Forster added an appendix elaborating on what occurred to the main characters after the novel’s end: the two world wars figure largely in their futures.