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A Room with a View
- Narrated by: Rebecca Hall
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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Summary
In this rich new audio production, acclaimed British American actress Rebecca Hall brings one of E. M. Forster's most admired works to life in this classic tale of human struggle.
A charming young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch, is wooed by both free-spirited George Emerson and wealthy Cecil Vyse while vacationing in Italy. Though attracted to George, Lucy becomes engaged to Cecil despite twice turning down his proposals. On hearing of the news, George confesses his love, leaving Lucy torn between marrying the more socially acceptable Cecil or George, the man she knows would bring her true happiness. Should Lucy choose social acceptance or true love?
It's both the quintessential Edwardian love story and a classic piece of social comedy, in which Forster is concerned with one of his favorite themes: the "undeveloped heart" of the English middle classes, here represented by a group of tourists and expatriates in Florence. Forster's disapproval of the era's restrictive conventions is reflected through his strong observation of character and society.
A Room with a View was ranked 79th on the Modern Library's list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The 1985 film adaptation by James Ivory won three Oscars.
Narrator Biography
Rebecca Hall is an award-winning British-American actress with extensive credits in stage and screen, including leading roles in Christine, Professor Marston & the Wonder Women, Frost/Nixon, and Vicky Christina Barcelona. As the daughter of two theater veterans - the stage director and Royal Shakespeare Company founder Peter Hall and the opera singer Maria Ewing - Rebecca began acting from an early age, and her mastery of the craft is on full display in her nuanced performance of A Room With a View, her debut audiobook narration.
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- Samantha Brennan
- 05-08-18
Forgotten How Good This Book Was...
What a wonderful and thought provoking story.
Rebecca Hall does an excellent job of reading this and it’s definitely a book I will come back to.
It’s also made me go back to other books written by the author.
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- Bruno Keyworth
- 06-09-23
Takes a while to get into, great story in the end
This is the second of E.M. Forster's work I've read after 'The Machine Stops' which I thoroughly enjoyed. This is a very different kind of story to that, and it took me a while to get into it, but in the end I really enjoyed it. I think the second part was preferable to the first, although that may just be that I was used to the narrator and characters by that point.
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- E. Campbell
- 06-08-23
Just okay
The writing was rich but dense. The dialogue evasive. Which I get was part of the point. But it just didn't hook me. But I did like it, because when it was good it was very, very good.
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- Kitty Kat
- 18-08-21
Beautiful retelling
A classic romance, beautifully told both in the written word and the spoken one. What more can you ask for?
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- Lupin Pooter
- 06-02-21
very entertaining
Love Rebecca Hall as a performer, and impossible not to picture her as the heroine.
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- Stephen Bentley
- 04-03-22
Disappointing narration
I was disappointed by this. I hadn't realised that Rebecca Hall has a lisp, I'm obsessing over the lisp, not listening to the story.
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- Cherub
- 12-04-23
A lovely, gently funny book
I came to A Room with a View through the film, and was delighted to find the book better, sweeter and sharper than the movie.
It’s a sweet book because nothing much goes wrong. It’s a sharp book because it is forensic in its depiction of the idiosyncrasies of the middle classes. And it’s a funny book because it gently mocks these people and their mildly eccentric behaviour, prizing manners over happiness. It concludes love and kindness are more important than intellect and pomposity. And that sometimes you have to be honest and learn to think for yourself and take responsibility for your own actions.
Many have criticised the narration. I think it is competent, echoing the voices of those in the film adaptation.
Mainly I think that I came across this recording on a day I felt sad, and by the evening I felt happier, and for that I’m very grateful indeed. If you listen to this, I think you’ll enjoy it.
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- Helen SJ
- 02-06-19
Lovely story, a little tedious to listen to.
Having only ever seen the film adaptation of this book I thought I would try listening to it. Listening to the sweet gentility of a bygone era is a little cloying. I was really irked though at the class and race divide that was. You think I would know better than to be annoyed being a history scholar.
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- Raluca Damian
- 14-08-21
Great performance and story!
Great performance by Rebecca Hall and surprising beautiful story!
Made me recall Jane Austen's books
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- V. Evans
- 04-05-22
Good but not a great
I have been listening to a lot of classics that I read as a teenager. Some are books I enjoyed and wanted to revisit and some are books I didn't appreciate at the time and I wondered if age and experience would make me view them differently.
This book fell in to the latter category and although I certainly enjoyed it more this time round I still found it wanting. It's certainly not in the top level of classics for me. I found, again, that I didn't really get to know George enough in Italy and the jump in time between Italy and the second half of the story looses its rhythm for me. Its also a little obvious that the female main character is written by a male author and has an air of how a man thinks a woman thinks rather than how they really do.
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