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A Room With a View
by Forster, E.M
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New
- Seller
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Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
As new Hardcover. Purple spine with gilt lettering and purple boards and richly illustrated.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Lansdowne Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 348
- Title
- A Room With a View
- Author
- Forster, E.M
- Illustrator
- Harte, Glynn Boyd
- Format/Binding
- Fine purple slipcase
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Folio Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Folio Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1996
- Pages
- 227 pp.; 3 leaves of plates
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Edition; Fiction; Folio Society;
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About the Seller
Lansdowne Books
Biblio member since 2018
Port Fairy, Victoria
About Lansdowne Books
Lansdowne Books is an independent online store specialising in Antiquarian and Quality Secondhand books. We are based in regional Victoria and offer our collection from around the world. It is possible to collect items from Port Fairy, Victoria Australia.
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