A Room with a View

Set in early 1900s Italy and England A Room with a View offers a humorous critique of Edwardian-era society. The novel begins in Florence Italy where Miss Lucy Honeychurch who is chaperoned by her spinster cousin Miss Charlotte Bartlett arrive at the Pensione Bertolini to find that instead of rooms with a view of the Arno as promised theirs face a drab courtyard. Another guest spontaneously offers to swap the rooms that he and his son have to remedy their distress. Thus ensues an unlikely acquai...See More