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A Room With A View
by E. M. Forster
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Clarence, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A Room With A View" by E. M. Forster. First American edition published in 1911 by G. P. Putnam's Sons in New York. Measures approximately 7.5" x 5.25", 364 numbered pages. Very good minus condition. Moderate surface wear to the cloth boards, with some staining at the top of the rear board. Cloth loss at the spine ends, with a small puncture at the lower third of the spine. Previous owner's name and stamp on the front endpaper and pastedown. Front endsheets foxed, curiously not affecting the rest of the textblock. Several dog-eared pages. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory# (L10-5).
Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Ernestoic Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004337
- Title
- A Room With A View
- Author
- E. M. Forster
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1911
- Keywords
- L10-5
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