A Room with a View

A sunny, brilliantly witty comedy of manners, this edition of A Room with a View is part of the Penguin Essentials collection and features beautiful cover art by Chris Silas Neal.

"You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you . . ."

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.

Key Highlights:

• Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Pertolini:
  • Flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish
  • The Cockney Signora
  • Curious Mr. Emerson
  • Most of all, his passionate son George

Lucy finds herself torn between:

• The intensity of life in Italy
• The repressed morals of Victorian England, personified in her terminally dull fiancé Cecil Vyse

Will she ever learn to follow her own heart?