This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an italian pensione and in a corner on surrey England. A charming young English woman,Lucy Honeychurch,witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza,Attracted to this man,George Emerson-who is entirely unsuitable and whose father just may be a Socialist-Lucy is soon at war with the snobbery of her is courted by a more acceptalble,if stifling,suitor,and soon realizes she must make a starting decision that will decide the course of her future;she is forced to choose between convention and passion. 作者简介： E.M.Forster Edward Morgan Forster was born January 1,1879,in London and was raised from infancy by his mother and paternal aunts after his father's death.Forster's boyhood experiences at the happiness he found at home,and his suffering left him with an abiding dislike of the English public school system.At King's College,Cambridge,however,he was able to pursue freely his varied interests in philosophy,literature,and Mediterranean civilization,and he soon determined to devote his life to writing.