A Room with a View by E.M. Forster - ISBN: 9780141183299
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Italian views ignite a young woman’s awakening, challenging English society.
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    240 pages

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    30 January 2007

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Summary

Written in 1908, A Room With A View is one of E.M. Forster’s earliest and most celebrated works. Forster’s social comedy is a witty observation of the English middle classes as they holiday abroad in Florence. One of these tourists is Lucy Honeychurch, a young girl whose heart is awakened by her experiences in Italy.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141183299
ISBN-10:0141183292
Author:E.M. Forster, Malcolm Bradbury
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Edition:5th
Release Date:30 January 2007
Weight:171g
Dimensions:12mm x 131mm x 195mm
Series:Penguin Classics
Audience Age:14-18
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A Room with a View by E.M. Forster - ISBN: 9780141183299
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About The Author

E.M. Forster

Edward Morgan Forster was born in London in 1879. He wrote six novels, four of which appeared before the First World War:

  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905)
  • The Longest Journey (1907)
  • A Room with a View (1908)
  • Howard’s End (1910)

An interval of fourteen years elapsed before he published A Passage to India. Maurice, his novel on a homosexual theme, finished in 1914, was published posthumously in 1971.

Malcolm Bradbury was a novelist, critic, television dramatist and Emeritus Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia. His novels include:

  • Eating People is Wrong (1959)
  • Stepping Westward (1965)
  • The History Man (1975)
  • Rates of Exchange (1983) (shortlisted for the Booker Prize)
  • Cuts: A Very Short Novel (1987)
  • Doctor Criminale (1992)

His critical works include:

  • The Modern American Novel (1984; revised edition, 1992)
  • No, Not Bloomsbury (essays, 1987)
  • The Modern world: Ten Great Writers (1988)
  • From Puritanism to Post-modernism: A History of American Literature (with Richard Ruland, 1991)

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