First published in 1908, this novel by the author of "A Passage to India" displays Forster's skill in contrasting British sensibilities with those of foreign cultures as he portrays the love of a British woman for an expatriate living in Italy. Forster's heroine, Miss Lucy Honeychurch, is caught up in a world of social snobbery. Unable to free herself of the claustrophobic influence of her British guardians, she is encouraged to take up with a well-connected bor of a man. But in the end , Honeychurch accepts responsibility for her own life, discovering true love with a man whose sense of freedom reminds her of a room with a view.
