A Room with a View

A Room with a View

A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the repressed culture of Edwardian England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. Merchant-Ivory produced an award-winning film adaptation in 1985. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked A Room with a View 79th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The first part of the novel is set in Florence, Italy, and describes a young English woman's confusion at the Pensione Bertolini over her...
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Author:E. M. Forster
Genre:Novel, Travel, Romance novel, Fiction
Year published:1908
Number of editions:38

Author of A Room with a View

E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster
January 1, 1879 - June 7, 1970
Birthplace:Marylebone

Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy...
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Additional works by E. M. Forster
BookCopyright DateGenre
A Passage to India Novel
Howards End Novel
Where Angels Fear to Tread Novel
The Longest Journey Bildungsroman
Maurice Fiction
The Celestial Omnibus September 1976 Fantasy
The Eternal Moment Fantasy
The Hill of Devi
The development of English prose between 1918 and 1939
TWO CHEERS FOR DEMOCRACY
Selected stories Fiction
The machine stops and other stories
E. M. Forster
Aspects of the novel Fiction
The Life to Come (and Other Stories)
What I believe
Virginia Woolf
Nordic twilight
A view without a room
BBC talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960
Pharos and Pharillon
Commonplace book
Marianne Thornton
collected tales of E. M. Forster
Aeneid of Virgil
Lucy novels
Arctic summer, and other fiction
story of the siren
Route des Indes
The Poetry 3e and Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms 2e and Merchant
Three complete novels
England's pleasant land
The government of Egypt
Avec vue sur l'Arno
Alexandria, a history and a guide
A letter to Madan Blanchard
new collected short stories
Routes de Indes
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
Desmond MacCarthy
Anonymity, an enquiry
Panico/Panic
Daughter dear
feminine note in literature
Great Novels of E.M. Forster
Albergo Empedocle, and other writings
Habitacion Con Vistas/Room With a View
Abinger harvest
Edwin Keppel Bennet
Forster-Masood letters
prince's tale and other uncollected writings
ewige Augenblick
Una habitacion con vistas/A Room With a View
Only connect
Battersea Rise
The Creator as Critic
Aspects of the Novel
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Characters in A Room with a View

Lucy Honeychurch
Lucy Honeychurch

Lucy Honeychurch is a fictional character from A Room with a View.

Cecil Vyse
Cecil Vyse

Cecil Vyse is a fictional character from A Room with a View.

Film adaptations of A Room with a View

A Room with a View
A Room with a View
Release date:March 7, 1986
Directed by:James Ivory
Runtime:117 minutes

A Room with a View is a 1985 British drama film directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant. The film is a close adaptation of E. M. Forster's novel of the same name, and even uses his chapter titles to divide the film into sections. The film stars Helena Bonham Carter as a young woman...
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Literary Genres

Novel
Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and...
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Travel
Travel

Travel is the movement of people or objects between relatively distant geographical locations. The term "travel" originates from the Old French word...
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Romance novel
Romance novel

The romance novel is a literary genre developed in Western culture, mainly in English-speaking countries. Novels in this genre place their primary...
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Fiction
Fiction

Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but...
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Frequently Asked Questions

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    When was the title "A Room with a View" first made available to the public?
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    The work was first published in 1908.
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    How long is the book "A Room with a View"?
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    The book has 248 pages.
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    The book "A Room with a View" is of which genre?
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    The written work is categorized as- Novel, Travel, Romance novel and Fiction.
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    The book, "A Room with a View" covers what literary subjects?
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    "A Room with a View" is cataloged in the category: Classics, Literature, England and Italy

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