For some reason I had a misty idea of Forster’s work.. spawning, no doubt, from some panoramic Out of Africa scene with Meryl Streep, a white dress, and a tidy Victorian hat. Nothing really prepared me for the very incisive and very tart social commentary and comedy of A Room with a View. Although Forster is lampooning much of the implied proprieties of Victorian social order and social self-consciousness, human nature is human nature, and therefore Forster’s commentary is as appropriate today as it was when he wrote it a hundred years ago.

Never thought this novel would have me laughing out loud, but it did. It also provided some wonderful nuggets of wisdom, and some stunning and thoughtful phrases.

A highly suggested read.