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A Room with a View
- Narrated by: Rebecca Hall
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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Publisher's 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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- melanie
- 2019-03-02
Movie much?
This narrator was splendid. The film adaptation kept so much to the book and the narrator recreates the actors voices you feel as though you are listening to the film. That wouldn't necessarily be a good thing but is enjoyable in this case.
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- Kathy
- 2022-08-21
Love love love this beautiful story
Here are the further words required for an Audible review: delightful sweeping stirring tragic memorable
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- Grey
- 2023-09-14
Perhaps A Better Read/ Very Good
I think this is the kind of book that is just better to read. It’s beautiful and an interesting story- however I listened to it at work and found myself often a bit confused or feeling I’d missed something. The voice actor is wonderful, I just feel like it’s a book I would have liked the time to study the words and admire the build of the sentences. This is no fault of the book or voice.
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- DB@Canada
- 2019-03-16
Excellent narration of well known story.
Voiced with perfect pace and tone for the content. The character portrayals were the same as for the 1985 film. This made listening like walking along a familiar path in the early summer light. The story follows the same trajectory of myriads of romance stories but with an intelligence, sharpness and inventiveness lacking in many of that genre’s works.
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- Patrick D Johnson
- 2022-10-11
magnificent
superb reading of a lovely story. A true credit to Forster's great novel. one of the best narrations I've ever heard.
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- Stewart Jack
- 2019-06-05
Wonderful characters
Wonderful performance of a beautiful story. Audio books are so wonderful. What would we do without them!
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- Melissa
- 2019-06-13
A Good Time
A Room With a View by E. M. Forster is a classic. I remember watching the movie with my mother and laughing at the bathing scene (*wink wink*).
This novel is at its best when it's critiquing the British society class structure and at its worst when it intentionally or unintentionally mocks the reader for being too base. It is, at times, shockingly delicious is it's depiction of love versus status. The language and characters are fun and playful but where the book fails is when the writer becomes a Cecil-type himself, if you know what I mean.
Overall, a very entertaining read, but watch the movie to get a better idea of the "view" Forster is referring to.
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- Jonathon Horel
- 2021-06-02
Beautiful Book, Beautiful Reader
I've loved this book for a long time and Rebecca Hall's reading keeps it fresh and vivid. Hopefully there will be more audiobooks read by her; but, for now, there is this. She brings out the nuances of the "muddle" created by Forster's characters and compliments the subtlety of his writing.
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- PCR
- 2019-04-13
No Jane Austen
The reader often afected an annoying little lisp, which I found off-putting. Some redeeming words of insight.
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- OperaQueen
- 2019-02-24
Great performance of a classic Forster novel
This is a classic Forster comedy of manners, satirizing the stuffiness of the upper middle classes in Edwardian Britain. Rebecca Hall vividly evoked each character and brought Forster's witty dialogue to life. I first read this novel when I was in Florence, by the Arno, in a room without a view. This performance took me back there.
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