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E.M.Forster: A Room with a View Edward Morgan Forster, (1879-1970), was an English novelist and essayist, whose novels were written in a style notable for its conciseness and fluidity, which explored the attitudes that created barriers between people. At the beginning of the Edwardian Era, Forster wrote three novels: "Where Angels Fear to Tread" (1905), "The Longest Journey" (1907) and "A Room with a View" (1908). The construction of these three novels was a reaction to lengthy, formally plotted Victorian fiction. Somewhat autobiographical, they also sounded a common theme prevalent in Forsters essays: the need to temper middle-class materialism with due consideration of things of the mind and imagination, in order to achieve harmony and understanding. In this brilliant piece of social comedy, Forster is concerned with one of his favourite themes: the 'undeveloped heart' of the English middle classes, who are here represented by a group of tourists and expatriates in Florence. The...

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