First published in 1908, A Room With A View portrays the love of a British woman for an expatriate living in Italy. Caught up in a world of social snobbery, Forster's heroine, Lucy Honeychurch, finds herself constrained by the claustrophobic influence of her British guardians. In the end, Lucy takes control of her own fate.

 
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Edward Morgan Forster was born in 1879 of mixed English and Welsh ancestry. His writing is known for its constant attention to moral, ethical, and human values, as well as its convincing evocations of England, Italy, Egypt, and India in the twentieth century. He died in 1970. Among his other books are Howard's End, Where Angels Fear to Tread and The Longest Journey.