George became a conscientious objector, lost his government job but was given non-combatant duties to avoid prison, leaving Mrs Honeychurch deeply upset with her son-in-law. It is Forster\'s afterthought of the novel, and he quite clearly states that "I cannot think where George and Lucy live." They were quite comfortable up until the end of World War I, with Charlotte Bartlett leaving them all her money in her will, but the war ruined their happiness according to Forster. In some editions, an appendix to the novel is given entitled "A View without a Room," written by Forster in 1958 as to what occurred between Lucy and George after the events of the novel. Beebe, persuades the pair to accept the offer, assuring Miss Bartlett that Mr. However, another guest at the pension, an Anglican clergyman named Mr. Without letting Lucy speak, Miss Bartlett refuses the offer, looking down on the Emersons because of their unconventional behaviour and thinking it would place her under an "unseemly obligation" towards them. This behaviour causes Miss Bartlett some consternation, as it appears impolite. Emerson interrupts their "peevish wrangling," offering to swap rooms as he and his son, George Emerson, look over the Arno. Lucy Honeychurch is touring Italy with her overbearing older cousin and chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett, and the novel opens with their complaints about the hotel, "The Pension Bertolini." Their primary concern is that although rooms with a view of the River Arno have been promised for each of them, their rooms instead look over a courtyard. The first part of the novel is set in Florence, Italy, and describes a young English woman\'s first visit to Florence, at a time when upper middle class English women were starting to lead independent, adventurous lives. The Modern Library ranked A Room with a View 79th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century (1998). Merchant-Ivory produced an award-winning film adaptation in 1985. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. Forster, about a young woman in the restrained culture of Edwardian era England. A Room with a View is a novel by English writer E.
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