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A Room with a View
E. M. Forster · 1908 · Romance, Drama & Literary
When Lucy Honeychurch travels to Florence, a chance meeting and a room with a view awaken feelings that England's careful rules never allowed. Torn between the safe, correct life expected of her and the honest one her heart keeps insisting on, she must decide who — and how — she truly wants to be. E. M. Forster's sunlit comedy of manners is a love story about the courage to see clearly and choose freely.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 18 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
A Map of Two Worlds — sunlit Florence and green English Surrey, and the places where the story unfolds.
Santa Croce
The World of A Room with a View — the people, objects, and contrasts that bind the story together.
The Characters — the full cast of A Room with a View.
Lucy Honeychurch — the girl who learns to see.
George Emerson — the man with a view.
Lucy and George — the two lovers on a Florentine hillside of violets.
The Violets — George kisses Lucy on the hillside above Fiesole.
This edition
- Title
- A Room with a View
- Author
- E. M. Forster (1879–1970)
- First published
- 1908
- Illustrated plates
- 55 original artworks · 18 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 20 · about 66,554 words
- Reading time
- 4 h 26 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- August 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #2641
Neighbours in the library
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