E. M. Forster A Room with a View

But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you, and no other word expresses it. Lucy has her rigid, middleclass life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy and the repressed morals of Edwardian England, personified in her terminally dull fiance Cecil Vyse. The Penguin English Library 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.