In the novel by EM Forster, in which Italian city was there 'A Room With A View'?
A Room with a View A Room with a View 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 critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. Merchant Ivory produced an award-winning film adaptation in 1985. The Modern Library ranked "A Room with a View" 79th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century (1998). The first part of the novel is set in Florence, Italy,
A Room with a View in "Information or whatever the withholding of information was then entitled" during the war, and was able to trick an Alexandria hostess into playing Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" by claiming he was Belgian, not German. "A Room with a View" had a lengthy gestation. By late 1902 Forster was working on a novel set in Italy which he called the 'Lucy novel'. In 1903 and 1904 he pushed it aside to work on other projects. He was still revising it in 1908. The novel was first adapted for the theatre by Richard Cottrell with Lance Severling for the Prospect Theatre Company,