A Passage to India
Penguin Essentials
$23.64
- 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: | 180mm x 111mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Penguin Essentials |
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About The Author
E.M. Forster
Edward Morgan Forster was born in London in 1879. He attended Tonbridge School and later King’s College, Cambridge, where he maintained a lifelong connection and was elected an Honorary Fellow in 1946.
Forster described his life as undramatic and was consistently modest about his accomplishments. In a BBC interview on his eightieth birthday, he stated he hadn’t written as much as he would have liked, and that his motivations for writing were partly financial and partly to earn the respect of those he admired, adding, “I am quite sure I am not a great novelist.”
Despite his humility, critics and the public recognized his significant talent. The Times obituary described him as “one of the most esteemed English novelists of his time.”
Forster authored six novels. Four were published before World War I:
- Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905)
- The Longest Journey (1907)
- A Room with a View (1908)
- Howard’s End (1910)
After a fourteen-year interval, he published A Passage to India, which received both the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Maurice, a novel exploring homosexual themes completed in 1914, was published posthumously in 1971.
His other works include:
- Two volumes of short stories
- Two collections of essays
- Aspects of the Novel (a critical work)
- The Hill of Devi (a record of his visits to the Indian state of Dewas Senior)
- Two biographies
- Two books about Alexandria, where he worked for the Red Cross during World War I
- The libretto for Benjamin Britten’s opera Billy Budd, co-written with Eric Crozier
Edward Morgan Forster died in June 1970.
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