Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the...(+)
Lucy Honeychurch arrives in Italy for the first time dependent on a Baedeker travel guide and her stern chaperone Miss Bartlett. As she explores Florence Lucy realises the constraints of her middle-class upbringing and finds herself attracted to George Emerson a young man also staying at the Pension Bertolini. Then an impulsive kiss and the confusion that follows prompt a sudden departure from the city.Back in England and engaged to the domineering Cecil Vyse Lucy meets George again. Caught between social obligation and a suppressed desire for a different life she must learn how to be true to herself.
Edward Morgan Forster was born in London in 1879 attended Tonbridge School and went on to King`s College Cambridge in 1897 where he retained a lifelong connection and was elected to an Honorary Fe...(+)