A Room with a View
by E.M. Forster
Florence teaches her she's been living wrong.
you've ever felt a place crack something open in you that your real life had kept closed
⚡ Choose Your Route ⚡
Not sold directly on this site. Support indie bookstores with a new copy, or go sustainable with a used one.
Supports independent bookstores
Secondhand & sustainable
Reference price shown. Other editions may be available.
Lucy Honeychurch arrives in Florence properly chaperoned and leaves having been kissed in a field of violets by a man her class tells her is unsuitable. Forster uses Italy as the place where Englishness fails — where the rules that organize Lucy's life back home become visibly arbitrary. A comedy of manners that is also a genuine dispatch about what travel does to a person when it's working: it shows you that the world you came from is one choice among many, not the only possible reality.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Italy • Europe
- Voice
- An outside perspective on Italy
