Publisher's Synopsis
A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the restrained culture of Edwardian era England. 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. Merchant Ivory produced an award-winning film adaptation in 1985.
The Modern Library ranked A Room with a View 79th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century (1998).
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*Biographical Information:
Early years
A department of the key building, Tonbridge School Forster, created at six Melcombe Place, Dorset Square, London NW1, that don't stands, was the sole kid of the Anglo Irish Alice Clara "Lily" (nee Whichelo) along with a Welsh architect, Edward Morgan Llewellyn Forster. He was authorized as Henry Morgan Forster, but unintentionally baptised Edward Morgan Forster.The father of his died of tuberculosis on thirty October 1880 before Morgan's next birthday. In 1883, he and his mom relocated to Rooks Nest, near Stevenage, Hertfordshire until 1893. This was serving as a model for the home Howards End in the novel of his of that title. It's listed Grade I for historic interest plus literary associations.Forster had happy recollections of the childhood of his at Rooks Nest.
