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).
Edward Morgan Forster (January 1, 1879 – June 7, 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. Many of his novels examine class difference and hypocrisy, including A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). The last brought him his greatest success.