A Room with a View by E.M. Forster, Fiction, Classics - Hardcover

FORSTER, E.M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1603126449 ISBN 13: 9781603126441

Publisher: The Folio Society, 2007

Synopsis

Forster's 1908 novel, A Room with a View, is his most optimistic work, while A Passage to India (1924) brought him his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 13 different years. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. Lucy is a well-mannered Edwardian lady who finds that true love has no interest in playing by her rules. But how can she choose between what she wants and what everyone around her expects her to want? This gentle but sharp comedy has it all: surprise encounters, jealousy and revenge, conventional fools and unconventional sages, confrontation, loss, and eventual triumph.

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Review:

I loved it. My first intimation of the possibilities of fiction --Zadie Smith

He says, and even more implies, things that no other novelist does, and we can go on reading Forster indefinitely --The Times

Book Description:

E. M. Forster is one of the great twentieth century authors.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Folio Society
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1603126449
• ISBN 13: 9781603126441
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Illustrator: Glynn Boyd Harte