A Room with a View vs The Wings of the Dove: Which Should You Read?

Both live on shelves: Young women in fiction, Young women, Travel, Historical Fiction, Romance, Fiction

Cover of A Room with a View

A Room with a View E. M. Forster · 1905 ★★★★☆ 3.9 196 pages · ≈ 3 h 38 m · Challenging Find on Amazon

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Cover of The Wings of the Dove

The Wings of the Dove Henry James · 1902 ★★★★☆ 3.8 457 pages · ≈ 8 h 28 m · Challenging Find on Amazon

The verdict

Ratings are close: 3.9 vs 3.8 — either is a safe pick by score.
A Room with a View is the quicker read — about 3 hours vs 8 for The Wings of the Dove.

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