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The love and the hobby of reading have diminished to some extent with the advent of technologies like Tv and web. Persons like to spend time watching Television, surfing the internet, or playing games on computers or play stations. Things like laptop or computer games and play stations have lowered, rather eliminated, the habit of reading from the younger generations.
There are especially couple of men and women left who like to read. Even in this time of technology, there are nonetheless some consumers who like to read in their spare time. There nonetheless are some folks who have a passion for reading. In most of them, this passion has been passed down from their elder ones. However, the content for reading has changed tremendously. The younger generation like to read far more of the supernatural stuff than the stories based on real characters or on human beings, their emotions and relations.
Thus, now, there are very few folks who like to read the tales or novels from the Edwardian era, even though, only the individuals who like reading these books are aware of the intensity of romance and culture depicted in them. These stories are though slow moving, but they have a charm of their own. There are few men and women left who like watching the Jane Austen type stories.
Anyway, for the individuals who are still into reading the stories from the Edwardian era, there is a novel with the title "A Room with a View". These are the kind of books that make you fall in love with them.
"A Room with a View" is written by E. M. Forster, which was published in the year 1908. The story is about a young woman surviving in the Edwardian England. The story is about enjoy, romance and the life of a young girl in the repressed culture of England throughout that period. It is a lovely depiction of the English society at the beginning of the 20th century. This novel has also been adapted for a movie in the year 1985.
The story can be divided into two parts the 1st part is set in Italy and the second part in England. The leading character Lucy is in Florence, Italy on a tour with her cousin. The place where they were to stay was named as The Pension Bertolini. They were promised a room with the view there hence, the name of the novel is taken from there. Then again, they did not get any such room.
Lucy fell for an Englishman, George, staying at the similar hotel. On the other hand, she was not appreciated for it, and like all other stories, they accidentally kept on meeting and fell in love. However, they had been separated as she was forced to leave for Rome. There she was proposed twice by Cecil whom she knew from England, but she turned him down and went back to her family members home in Surrey, England.
Immediately after various series of dramatic episodes, in the end, as fate has it, Lucy and George have to life happily ever after, so they elope without having the consent of her mother. This novel is one of the top novels of the writer, which has been adapted for theatre, film, radio and tv.