"A Room with a View," by E. M. Forster, depicts a young Englishwoman's adventure trying to come to grips with the conflict between her desires and society's expectations. Lucy Honeychurch is a well-bred young middle class girl on holiday in radiant Florence. As E. M. Forster tells it, Lucy comes from a family which is overly concerned with respectability, and is over-protected by a spinster named Charlotte Bartlett. Under no circumstances will Miss Bartlett allow Lucy to pursue (or even examine) her affection for the handsome young George Emerson--his father is far too unconventional with his modern notions about honesty and freethinking. Determined to forget George, Lucy finally gives in to the repeated proposals of Cecil Vyse, a thoroughly fashionable young gentleman, if not very exciting. And so E. M. Forster sets the stage for "A Room with a View," a splendid satire on the English social strata of the early part of the 20th century when the formal social structure of the Victorian era was beginning to fray at the edges. Vyse is a delightfully drawn male chauvinist; nobody likes him, but everyone is willing to accept him, and Lucy convinces herself that she is in love with him. However, Vyse's own penchant for getting his way by playing rather cruel practical jokes brings the Emersons back into the picture. Confronted by the contrast between the not quite classy but intelligent, thoughtful (and bold) George Emerson and the arrogant, boorish, but elite Cecil Vyse, Lucy finally decides to live as she plays Beethoven, with exciting results. E. M. Forster writes gently and calmly, but with a passion for life and love welling up beneath the surface. "A Room with a View" is a lovely book, vital with the force of a sensitive and empathetic mind. Highly recommended!

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One of the most popular and most quoted books in English, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was the creation of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), a distinguished scholar, mathematician and author who wrote under the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll. Written for young readers but enjoyed equally by adults, the fantastic tale transformed children's literature, liberating it from didactic constraints. The story is deeply but gently satiric, enlivened with an imaginative plot and brilliant use of nonsense, as it relates Alice's adventures in a bizarre, topsy-turvey land underground. There she encounters a cast of strange characters and fanciful beasts, including the White Rabbit, March Hare, and Mad Hatter, the sleepy Dormouse and grinning Cheshire Cat,the Mock Turtle, the dreadful Queen of Hearts, and unusual creatures. ---------- Also contained in: - [Alice in Wonderland](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL151449W) - [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / The Hunting of the Snark](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17727149W) - [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL9770557W) - [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass / Hunting of the Snark](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8029136W) - [Best of Lewis Carroll](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL138061W) - [Complete Illustrated Works of Lewis Carroll](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL151414W) - [Complete Stories of Lewis Carroll](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24036293W) - [Complete Works of Lewis Carroll](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL151444W) - [Magic in the Air](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1387662W) - [Reader's Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers: Volume Eight](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15150278W)

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One of the most popular and most quoted books in English, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was the creation of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), a distinguished scholar, mathematician and author who wrote under the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll. Written for young readers but enjoyed equally by adults, the fantastic tale transformed children's literature, liberating it from didactic constraints. The story is deeply but gently satiric, enlivened with an imaginative plot and brilliant use of nonsense, as it relates Alice's adventures in a bizarre, topsy-turvey land underground. There she encounters a cast of strange characters and fanciful beasts, including the White Rabbit, March Hare, and Mad Hatter, the sleepy Dormouse and grinning Cheshire Cat,the Mock Turtle, the dreadful Queen of Hearts, and unusual creatures. ---------- Also contained in: - [Alice in Wonderland](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL151449W) - [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / The Hunting of the Snark](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17727149W) - [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL9770557W) - [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass / Hunting of the Snark](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8029136W) - [Best of Lewis Carroll](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL138061W) - [Complete Illustrated Works of Lewis Carroll](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL151414W) - [Complete Stories of Lewis Carroll](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24036293W) - [Complete Works of Lewis Carroll](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL151444W) - [Magic in the Air](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1387662W) - [Reader's Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers: Volume Eight](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15150278W)

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One of the most popular and most quoted books in English, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was the creation of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), a distinguished scholar, mathematician and author who wrote under the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll. Written for young readers but enjoyed equally by adults, the fantastic tale transformed children's literature, liberating it from didactic constraints. The story is deeply but gently satiric, enlivened with an imaginative plot and brilliant use of nonsense, as it relates Alice's adventures in a bizarre, topsy-turvey land underground. There she encounters a cast of strange characters and fanciful beasts, including the White Rabbit, March Hare, and Mad Hatter, the sleepy Dormouse and grinning Cheshire Cat,the Mock Turtle, the dreadful Queen of Hearts, and unusual creatures. ---------- Also contained in: - [Alice in Wonderland](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL151449W) - [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / The Hunting of the Snark](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17727149W) - [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL9770557W) - [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass / Hunting of the Snark](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8029136W) - [Best of Lewis Carroll](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL138061W) - [Complete Illustrated Works of Lewis Carroll](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL151414W) - [Complete Stories of Lewis Carroll](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24036293W) - [Complete Works of Lewis Carroll](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL151444W) - [Magic in the Air](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1387662W) - [Reader's Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers: Volume Eight](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15150278W)

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The sentimental novels of the early national period were considered a danger to society and were criticized for the corrupting influence they had on the minds of their mostly young and female audience. They told tales of vice and intrigue that purported to be "based on fact" and also advocated the need for better female education that would prepare young women against sweet-talking seducers. Extremely popular in America after the Revolution and throughout the nineteenth century, Charlotte Temple and The Coquette were two of the most successful novels of the period. Reprinted here in their entirety, with Introductions by the literary scholar Cathy N. Davidson, they offer the modern student a glimpse at the earliest American popular fiction. Charlotte Temple, the most popular novel in America until Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, went through over 200 editions. It tells of a beautiful English girl who at the age of 15 is courted by and runs away with a British lieutenant named Montraville. Susanna Rowson, the daughter of a British naval officer, was one of the most accomplished women of the early national period. Actress, song-writer, novelist, poet, dramatist, and essayist, she was also the founder of one of the most progressive academies for young women of her day. She remained best-known, however, for Charlotte Temple, a novel that promised to be "of service to [the]...young and unprotected woman in her first entrance into life." In her Introduction, Cathy Davidson discusses the enormous popularity of the book and the life of Susanna Rowson, which was even more sensational than those of the characters depicted in the novel.

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The first novel written by the author of "Jane Eyre," "The Professor" is a story about the life of the resilient William Crimsworth. An English orphan raised by coldly aristocratic uncles, he rejects a life as a clergyman to work in his brother's mill in Yorkshire. Treated abominably in his tedious clerkship, Crimsworth escapes to Belgium and begins teaching in a boys' school. There he eventually meets the headmistress of a neighboring girls' school, Zoraide Reuter, as well as one of the teachers in the girls' school, Francis Henri. Narrated from a convincing male perspective, Bronte exercised her skill as a writer in telling a tale based on her own experiences as a student in Brussels, challenging many of the assumptions of Victorian society in the process. Crimsworth matures, finds a fulfilling profession, and discovers love in this significant commencement to Charlotte Bronte's literary career.

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