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A Room with a View is a novel by British author E. M. Forster that was first published in 1908
. It chronicles the experiences of a group of English people vacationing in Italy. Forster wrote the first half of A Room with a View during a stay in Italy with his mother. The novel shows Forster’s support for the new, liberal social behaviors of the Edwardian age, in contrast to the more sober ideals prevalent during the Victorian era. Forster’s authorial style stands out as lighter and more conversational than the English novelists who preceded him.Forster’s critical yet sympathetic views of people and their interactions marked him as a master of character and societal analysis. A Room with a View was beautifully adapted into a film directed by James Ivory with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvaia. and starring Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, and Julian Sands in 1985.
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