A Room with a View (dramatic reading)

Written by E. M. Forster

Narrated by LibriVox Community

A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the repressed culture of Edwardian era England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Cast:
Lucy Honeychurch/Narrator: Arielle Lipshaw
Charlotte Bartlett: Elizabeth Klett
Mr. Emerson: asterix
George Emerson: nomorejeffs
Mr. Beebe: Bob Neufeld
Miss Eleanor Lavish: Patti Cunningham
Miss Theresa Alan: ElleyKat
Miss Catharine Alan: Maryanka
Italian Lady/Persephone/Maid: Libby Gohn
Mr. Eager/Powell: Ric F
Vicar/Sir Harry Otway/Phaethon/Freddy Honeychurch: tovarisch
Mrs. Honeychurch: CaprishaPage
Cecil Vyse: Brett W. Downey
Mrs. Vyse: Etel Buss
Minnie Beebe: Charlotte Duckett

Audio edited by: Arielle Lipshaw

• Language: English
• Publisher: LibriVox
• Release date: Aug 25, 2014

E. M. Forster

E.M. Forster (1879-1970) was an English novelist. Born in London to an Anglo-Irish mother and a Welsh father, Forster moved with his mother to Rooks Nest, a country house in rural Hertfordshire, in 1883, following his father’s death from tuberculosis. He received a sizeable inheritance from his great-aunt, which allowed him to pursue his studies and support himself as a professional writer. Forster attended King’s College, Cambridge, from 1897 to 1901, where he met many of the people who would later make up the legendary Bloomsbury Group of such writers and intellectuals as Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, and John Maynard Keynes. A gay man, Forster lived with his mother for much of his life in Weybridge, Surrey, where he wrote the novels A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India. Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature sixteen times without winning, Forster is now recognized as one of the most important writers of twentieth century English fiction, and is remembered for his unique vision of English life and powerful critique of the inequities of class.