A Room with a View

by E M Forster

Oliver Stallybrass

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This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England.

A charming young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted to this man, George Emerson—who is entirely unsuitable and whose father just may be a Socialist—Lucy is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires. Back in England, she is courted by a more acceptable, if stifling, suitor and soon realizes...Read more
  • ISBN10 0141182644
  • ISBN13 9780141182643
  • Publish Date 24 February 2000 (first published 1 June 1908)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 13 August 2006
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 256
  • Language English