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        A Room With A View


        setting

        Italy; England

        time

        Pre-WW I

        language

        English

        region

        Western Europe

        year published

        1908

        page count

        196

        difficulty

        Advanced

        main characters

        Lucy Honeychurch, Cecil, George, Mr Emerson

        Rip's impressions

        The pace is not too fast or slow, just right. Unbelievably modern prose, despite its turn of the century publishing date.

        first line

        "The Signora had no business to do it," said Miss Bartlett, "no business at all. She promised us south rooms with a view close together, instead of which here are north rooms, looking into a courtyard, and a long way apart. Oh, Lucy!"

        last lines

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