... 1930s the scene is set in India which belongs to the British Empire. At this time a young poet named Flora Crewe who is visiting finds herself poised between two very different societies. The 1980s section of the play is set in England where sixty years after the poet has died, her sister and the son of the artist that Flora associated with come together. Although it is written as a play it reads as though it has been written as a novel as it is very descriptive describing even the colour of Flora's 'cornflower blue dress'. Lucy, the central character in A Room with a View is the child of the noveau rich. Like Flora she is young charming and likeable. At the beginning of the novel Lucy is relatively uninformed and gradually throughout the book learns more about not only Italy but herself. By the end of the novel ...

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