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Romance

A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster

A young English woman falls in love while on tour in Italy.

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First published
1908
Length
67,147 words
Reading time
About 4 hr 40 min
Language
English (UK)

About the book

A Room With a View , perhaps E. M. Forster’s lightest novel, was also one long in gestation—he began it as early as 1901, and only published it in 1908.

In it we meet young Lucy Honeychurch and her cousin Charlotte Bartlett, who have gone on tour to Italy. During their stay they meet a series of interesting characters, including George Emerson, the son of an eccentric gentleman. The conflict between Lucy’s choice of the unusual George, or her more conventional English suitor Cecil, forms the crux of Forster’s critique of contemporary English society.

Despite the novel being a societal critique, the prose is light and studded with Forster’s easy witticisms. In 1958 Forster added an appendix elaborating on what occurred to the main characters after the novel’s end: the two world wars figure largely in their futures.

First published 1908; the Read4Max reading text contains approximately 67,147 words arranged in 22 navigable sections.

About the author

E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster (1879–1970) is described by Wikidata as English novelist (1879-1970), with citizenship or national association recorded as United Kingdom and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Recorded occupations include writer, novelist, screenwriter, literary critic, biographer, and science fiction writer. Languages recorded for E. M. Forster include English. The structured record associates E. M. Forster with Bloomsbury Group. Wikidata lists Howards End, A Room with a View, Maurice, Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, and A Passage to India among E. M. Forster's notable works. Open Library identifies A Room with a View as a leading work in its author record. Open Library catalogs 436 works under this author record. The Read4Max catalog currently includes A Passage to India, A Room with a View, Aspects of the Novel, Howards End, Short Fiction, and Where Angels Fear to Tread under E. M. Forster's authorship.

1879–1970

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Themes and ideas

  • Humorous stories
  • England
  • Young women
  • British
  • Florence (Italy)

Table of contents

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Show all 22 sections
  1. Part I
  2. I
  3. II
  4. III
  5. IV
  6. V
  7. VI
  8. VII
  9. Part II
  10. VIII
  11. IX
  12. X
  13. XI
  14. XII
  15. XIII
  16. XIV
  17. XV
  18. XVI
  19. XVII
  20. XVIII
  21. XIX
  22. XX
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