A Room With A View Book Cover

Set in italy and england the story is both a romance and a humorous critique of english society at the beginning of the 20th century.

A room with a view book cover. From the beginning of the book lucy honeychurch the protagonist is torn between what is socially acceptable. Set in italy and england the story is both a romance and a humorous critique of english society at the beginning of the 20th century. Forster about a young woman in the restrained culture of edwardian era england. This is illustrated by the love triangle between lucy george her true love and cecil her fiancé.

My book was missing pages 355 386 of a room with a view. Instead of those pages i had pages 51 82 of howards end which was already printed in the actual howards end part of the book. A room with a view is a great novel that offers insight into society during the early twentieth century. When lucy visits italy with her prim and proper cousin charlotte she is on the verge of an experience that will throw her neatly ordered life quite off balance.

To expound a little below is the original edition in the publisher s cloth without a book jacket of a room with a view as it was published in 1908 written by e m. A room with a view is a 1908 novel by english writer e. Forster about a young woman in the restrained culture of edwardian era england. Penguin books harmondsworth middlesex england 1973.

Disappointed i have to stop reading in the middle until a new book arrives. The picture above is from the excellent site dedicated to this great british author by rob doll ph d who covers the writer and his books in great depth.