Complete and unabridged, with 54 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Giovanni Paolo Panini and Antonio Joli. Lucy Honeychurch is kissed by an unsuitable young man among the violets outside Florence, goes home to Surrey and gets engaged to a suitable one. Forster travelled in Italy with his mother in 1901 and wrote the Italian chapters first; the English half took him six more years. The comedy is in the chaperones, and the argument underneath it is about who is allowed to say what they feel. Fifty-four plates of painting, from Panini's ancient Rome to Munch's spring landscapes, follow the same Italian light and northern longing that pull Lucy between Florence and Surrey.