A Room With a View

by Forster, E M

E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View is a novel about a young woman in the repressed culture of the Edwardian age. In this, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. A Room with a View was the first novel that Forster started, but it wasn’t published until 1908, after he’d written and published two other books—Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) and The Longest Journey (1907). As one of Forster’s earlier works, A Room with a View is not as mature or complex as Howard's End (1910) and Passage to India (1924). However, its strength lies in its vivid cast of characters, humorous dialogue, and comedic play upon the manners of the day.

A Room with a View is ranked 79th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century. The novel has been adapted for stage, film, radio, and television. Perhaps most notable is the 1985 award-winning film adaptation starring Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, and Daniel Day-Lewis.

First Edition Identification

Edward Arnold first published A Room with a View in 1908. First editions are bound in ribbed burgundy cloth and have 324 pages (plus 8 catalogue pages at the end). Published in a limited print run of 2,000 copies, A Room with a View is the scarcest first edition of Forster's 5 major novels, copies having sold for upwards of $1,800.

Other Collectible or Notable Editions

Alfred A. Knopf published the first US edition of A Room with a View in 1923. 

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London: Edward Arnold, 1908. First Edition. Very Good. 324pp + [1]-2,7-8 (ads). First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original ribbed maroon cloth. Very Good with with soiling and wear to cloth, fading to spine, creases to cloth at spine ends and corners bumped. Pages toned, foxed at textblock edge,prelims and terminals. Endsheets offset and hinges there slightly… Read more about this item
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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A Room With A View" by E. M. Forster. First American edition published in 1911 by G. P. Putnam's Sons in New York. Measures approximately 7.5" x 5.25", 364 numbered pages. Very good minus condition. Moderate surface wear to the cloth boards, with some staining at… Read more about this item
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Penguin. Fair. Paperback. 1986. 260 pages. creased spine, some wear, half-title page removed<br ><br><p><strong>A ROOM WITH A VIEW</strong><br /><br />by E M For ster <br /><br />edited by Oliver Stallybrass<br /><br />Penguin, UK, 1986<br />ISBN 9780140010596<br />sml pb, 260pp<br /><br />A CCEPTABLE: creased spine, some wear, half-title page removed<br / ><br ... .
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London: Edward Arnold, 1908. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 324; [8] ads pp. Red cloth gilt. Neat owner name on front fly, spine letters a little dull but readable, and a couple of tiny tears at the spine ends, else near fine. Very scarce. One of 2000 copies.
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