![]() ![]() They were promised rooms with a view of the River Arno but instead have ones overlooking a drab courtyard. The novel opens in Florence with the women complaining about their rooms at the Pensione Bertolini. ![]() In the first part, Miss Lucy Honeychurch is touring Italy with her overly-fussy spinster cousin and chaperone, Miss Charlotte Bartlett. The novel is set in the early 1900s as upper-middle-class English women are beginning to lead more independent, adventurous lives. 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). Merchant Ivory produced an award-winning film adaptation in 1985. ![]() 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. A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. ![]()
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