A Room with a View (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: E. M. Forster
- First Published: 1908
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: Early twentieth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Emotions, England or English people, Italy or Italians
- Locales: London, England, Florence, Italy, Surrey, England
Places Discussed
Windy Corner. Home of Lucy Honeychurch and her mother and brother. Windy Corner is located near Summer Street, in the Surrey hills. The Honeychurches live in suburbia, as did E. M. Forster for much of his life, close to London but outside it. Surrey is famous as a recreation destination. As he indicates in the title, Forster considered rooms within houses to be symbolically important places: The rooms in the boxy Honeychurch house are protected from the outside by heavy curtains and filled with solid Victorian furniture. They do not have views. Views are to be...
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