A Room with a View

by Edward Morgan Forster

Paperback, 242 pages

English language

Published Oct. 22, 1989 by Vintage.

ISBN:: 978-0-679-72476-6
OCLC Number:: 20743509

First published in 1908, A Room with a View portrays the love of a British woman for an expatriate living in Italy. Caught up in a world of social snobbery, Forster's heroine, Lucy Honeychurch, finds herself constrained by the claustrophobic influence of her British guardians, who encourage her to take up with a well-connected boor. In the end, however, Lucy takes control of her own fate and finds love with a man whose free spirit reminds her of “a room with a view.”

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loppear reviewed A Room With A View by Edward Morgan Forster

And a lovely companion piece to Still Life.

4 stars

Smart cozy skewering of English class and respectability, old Europe's wonder and modern sensibility, flipping effortlessly between interior mental changes and a range of characters observations with the author's judgement right alongside.