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Room with a View
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Room with a View Paperback - 1999

by E. M. Forster


About this book

E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View is a novel about a young woman in the repressed culture of the Edwardian age. In this, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. A Room with a View was the first novel that Forster started, but it wasn’t published until 1908, after he’d written and published two other books—Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) and The Longest Journey (1907). As one of Forster’s earlier works, A Room with a View is not as mature or complex as Howard's End (1910) and Passage to India (1924). However, its strength lies in its vivid cast of characters, humorous dialogue, and comedic play upon the manners of the day.

A Room with a View is ranked 79th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century. The novel has been adapted for stage, film, radio, and television. Perhaps most notable is the 1985 award-winning film adaptation starring Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, and Daniel Day-Lewis.

From the publisher

Lucy Honeychurch, a young woman, is travelling abroad for the first time with her cousin Charlotte. On her return to England, in her relationships with her cousin, the unconventional Emersons and her supercilious fiance Cecil, Lucy is torn between lingering Victorian proprieties and the spontaneous promptings of her heart.

First line

The Signora had no business to do it, said Miss Bartlett, no business at all.

First Edition Identification

Edward Arnold first published A Room with a View in 1908. First editions are bound in ribbed burgundy cloth and have 324 pages (plus 8 catalogue pages at the end). Published in a limited print run of 2,000 copies, A Room with a View is the scarcest first edition of Forster's 5 major novels, copies having sold for upwards of $1,800.

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  • Title Room with a View
  • Author E. M. Forster
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language SPA
  • Publisher Penguin Books, Limited (UK), London
  • Date September 1999
  • ISBN 9780140282634 / 0140282637
  • Dimensions 7.13 x 4.37 x 0.55 in (18.11 x 11.10 x 1.40 cm)
  • Reading level 760
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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