A prophetic story about social isolation and dependence on technology written over a century ago by the Nobel Prize–nominated author.In a future version of planet Earth, most of the human population doesn't venture above ground. Rarely do they even leave their own rooms, in which all of their needs are met by the Machine.The Machine allows the humans to communicate "ideas" with one another, which is essentially their only activity. It doesn't stop them from...

The novel follows lives of three families in England at the beginning of the 20th century: the Wilcoxes, rich capitalists with a fortune made in the Colonies; the half German Schlegels, whose cultural pursuits have much in common with the real-life Bloomsbury Group; and the Basts, an impoverished young couple from a lower middle class background. The idealistically motivated, well read, highly intelligent Schlegel sisters seek to help the struggling Basts, wishing at the same time to rid the ...

Maurice is heartbroken over unrequited love, which opened his heart and mind to his own sexual identity. In order to be true to himself, he goes against the grain of society's often unspoken rules of class, wealth, and politics.Forster understood that his homage to same-sex love, if published when he completed it in 1914, would probably end his career. Thus, Maurice languished in a drawer for fifty-seven years, the author requesting it be published only after his death (alo...

One of English literature's most inspiring love storiesLucy Honeychurch is a young woman torn between the opposing values of gray old England and vibrant Italy in this unforgettable story of romance and rebellion. On a trip to Florence with her older cousin and chaperone, Lucy becomes enchanted by a freedom unlike any she has known at home. The excitement she feels when she is with George Emerson, a fellow boarder at the Pension Bertolini, is as exhilarating as it i...

Widowed Lilia Herriton meets a young handsome Italian during her travels in Tuscany. She soon falls in love with both Italy and the young Gino and decides to stay there. Her dead husband's family is furious. Lilia's brother-in-law Philip is sent to Italy in attempts to break the Italian romance, but he arrives too late. Lilia had already married the Italian and becomes pregnant again.

A Book With a Heart: A ROOM WITH A VIEW depicts a young Englishwomans adventure trying to come to grips with the conflict between her desires and societys expectations. Lucy Honeychurch is a well-bred young middle class girl on holiday in radiant Florence.She comes from a family overconcerned with respectability and is therefore overprotected by a dessicated spinster named Charlotte Bartlett. One wonders if Forster had in mind a more famous Charlotte B. when he drew Lucys protector...

William Golding’s unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to Penguin Classics in a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois LowryAs provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding’s compelling story about a group of very ordinary boys marooned on a coral island has be...

An impulsive English widow's trip to Italy stirs up trouble for her uptight in-laws in this classic novel by the author of A Passage to India.Leaving dreary England behind, thirty-three-year-old widow Lilia Herriton travels to exotic Italy where she is soon engaged to a handsome, younger Italian man. Her late husband's family is not pleased, and they try to bring Lilia home—but fail. After Lilia gives birth to a son, her in-laws once again intercede. Philip...

This novel is set in British India and deals with the themes of friendship, love, and betrayal. It opens on a train journey from Delhi to a southern Indian hill station. A British wayfarer, Dr. Aziz, meets a Mrs. Moore and her daughter on the train and befriends them.A Passage to India is not only a novel about the disillusionment of Englishmen in colonial India, but also about self-discovery, personal relationships, and humanistic philosophy.

Join Lucy Honeychurch, a young Edwardian girl on her journey of growing up, sensual awakening and true love as she tours Italy with her overbearing older cousin and chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett. A Room with a View is Forster's most romantic and optimistic featuring Lucy's life as symbol of empowerment for the young and impressionable generation emerging during that era.

A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the repressed culture of Edwardian England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. Merchant-Ivory produced an award-winning film adaptation in 1985. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Rickie Elliot is a student at early 20th century Cambridge, a university that seems like paradise to him, amongst bright if cynical companions, when he receives a visit from two friends, an engaged young woman, Agnes Pembroke, and her elder brother, Herbert. The Pembrokes are Rickie's only friends from home. An orphan who grew up living with cousins, he was sent to a public school where he was shunned and bullied because of his lame foot, an inherited weakness, and frail body. Agnes, as it...