A Room With A View

by Edward Morgan Forster

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789353420727
Publisher:	Lector House
Publication date:	06/10/2019
Pages:	166
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.38(d)

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Chapter II: In Santa Croce with No Baedeker IT was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons. It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and close below, the Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road. Over the river men were at work with spades and sieves on the sandy foreshore, and on the river was a boat, also diligently employed for some mysterious end. An electric tram came rushing underneath the window. No one was inside it, except one tourist; but its platforms were overflowing with Italians, who preferred to stand. Children tried to hang on behind, and the conductor, with no malice, spat in their faces to make them let go. Then soldiers appeared—good-looking, undersized men —wearing each a knapsack covered with mangy fur, and a great-coat which had been cut for some larger soldier. Beside them walked officers, looking foolish and fierce, and before them went little boys, o f turning somersaults in time with the band. The tramcar became entangled in their ranks, and moved on painfully, like a caterpillar in a swarm of ants. One of the little boys fell down, and some white bullocks came out of an archway. Indeed, if it had not been for the good advice of an old man who was selling button-hooks, the road might never have got clear. Over such trivialities as these many a valuable hour may slip away, and thetraveller who has ' , gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, ' or the corruption of the Papacy, ma...

Table of Contents

Part 1
	The Bertolini	1
	In Santa Croce with No Baedeker	16
	Music, Violets, and the Letter "S"	35
	Fourth Chapter	49
	Possibilities of a Pleasant Outing	57
	The Reverend Arthur Beebe, the Reverend Cuthbert Eager, Mr. Emerson, Miss Eleanor Lavish, Miss Charlotte Bartlett, and Miss Lucy Honeychurch Drive Out in Carriages to See a View; Italians Drive Them	73
	They Return	88
Part 2
	Mediaeval	105
	Lucy as a Work of Art	124
	Cecil as a Humourist	142
	In Mrs. Vyse's Well-Appointed Flat	153
	Twelfth Chapter	161
	How Miss Bartlett's Boiler Was So Tiresome	173
	How Miss Lucy Faced the External Situation Bravely	184
	The Disaster Within	192
	Lying to George	210
	Lying to Cecil	221
	Lying to Mr. Beebe, Mrs. Honeychurch, Freddy, and the Servants	229
	Lying to Mr. Emerson	250
	The End of the Middle Ages	271