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.
Cover of Penguin Essentials edition (2011)
Portrait of Forster by Roger Fry, 1911
Edward Morgan Forster was an English author, best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924).
Portrait of Forster by Dora Carrington, c. 1924–1925
Plaque and sundial designed by Bob Duvivier at Rooks Nest, the childhood home remembered in Forster's novel Howards End.
A section of the main building, Tonbridge School
Forster lived and died at this house, the home of his friends Robert and May Buckingham. The sign above the garage door marks the 100th anniversary of his birth.