A Room with a View
- 200
- Pages
- about 3.5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“A Room with a View” is a light, hopeful love story that doubles as a comedy about English propriety. It moves from Italy to Edwardian England, and Forster’s mockery of the society of his day is its lasting pleasure. Some readers struggle with the opening third and say the book comes alive after it; some find the ending hurried and the romance a touch melodramatic. At two hundred pages, a good companion for a journey.
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About the book
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.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.3 across 251 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 63% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Romance average of 7.6. That is how 7.4 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.5 | 21 | 8% |
| Hardcover | 7.2 | 230 | 92% |
Frequently asked
How long is A Room with a View?
It has 200 pages — shorter than 99% of the ranked books in Romance.
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