A Passage to India
Penguin Essentials
$23.61
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2016
Summary
Forster’s story of Anglo-Indian society under the Raj, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.
When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the ‘real India’, they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241214992 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241214998 |
| Author: | E.M. Forster |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2016 |
| Weight: | 169g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 111mm x 180mm |
| Series: | Penguin Essentials |
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E.M. Forster
Edward Morgan Forster was born in London in 1879. He attended Tonbridge School and King’s College, Cambridge, where he maintained a lifelong connection, being elected to an Honorary Fellowship in 1946.
Forster was unfailingly modest about his achievements, declaring his life as a whole had not been dramatic. He stated, “I have not written as much as I’d like to… I write for two reasons: partly to make money and partly to win the respect of people whom I respect… I had better add that I am quite sure I am not a great novelist.” Despite his reservations, critics and the public recognized him as “one of the most esteemed English novelists of his time.”
His six novels include:
- Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905)
- The Longest Journey (1907)
- A Room with a View (1908)
- Howard’s End (1910)
- A Passage to India (published fourteen years after Howard’s End, it won both the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize)
- Maurice (a novel on a homosexual theme, finished in 1914, published posthumously in 1971)
In addition to his novels, Forster published:
- Two volumes of short stories
- Two collections of essays
- A critical work, Aspects of the Novel
- The Hill of Devi, a record of two visits to the Indian State of Dewas Senior
- Two biographies
- Two books about Alexandria, where he worked for the Red Cross during the First World War
- The libretto for Britten’s opera Billy Budd, with Eric Crozier
Edward Morgan Forster died in June 1970.
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