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A Room with a View

E. M. Forster

  • 204 pages · about 3 hours
  • First published 1905
  • 755 editions
  • Free to read
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1 About this book

Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her, until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Bertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney Signora, curious Mr Emerson and, most of all, his passionate son George.

Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy and the repressed morals of Edwardian England, personified in her terminally dull fiancé Cecil Vyse. Will she ever learn to follow her own heart?

Good for readers who want: a love story, historical fiction, and a book they can read free online.

  • Romance
  • Historical fiction
  • Humor
  • Voyages
  • Young women
  • In fiction
  • England in fiction
  • Travel

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3 About E. M. Forster

1879–1970

Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English author. He is best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). He also wrote numerous short stories, essays, speeches and broadcasts, as well as biographies and pageant plays. His short story "The Machine Stops" (1909) is often viewed as the beginning of technological dystopian fiction.

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