"A Room With A View" by E.M. Forster. Edward Arnold, London. 1908 first UK edition, first issue. Book in very good condition. dark red morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, bordered in gilt, spine gilt in compartments, titled in gilt, morocco turnins ruled in gilt with blind-stamped corner-pieces, marbled endpapers, g.e., a very attractive copy. 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 humorous 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).