A Passage to India
$21.25
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
17 May 2022
Summary
First time in Black Classics for Forster’s story of Anglo-Indian society under the Raj. Featuring a new introduction by novelist Pankaj Mishra.
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241540428 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241540429 |
| Author: | E.M. Forster, Pankaj Mishra |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 17 May 2022 |
| Weight: | 310g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 129mm x 196mm |
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E.M. Forster
E.M. Forster
Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970) was a prominent novelist who penned six major novels:
- Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905)
- The Longest Journey (1907)
- A Room with a View (1908)
- Howards End (1910)
- A Passage to India (1924)
- Maurice (written in 1914, published posthumously in 1971)
Beyond his novels, Forster also published:
- Two volumes of short stories
- Two collections of essays
- A critical work, Aspects of the Novel
- The Hill of Devi
- Two biographies
- Two books about Alexandria
- The libretto for Benjamin Britten’s opera Billy Budd
Pankaj Mishra
Pankaj Mishra was born in North India in 1969. He is the author of The Romantics: A Novel and An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World, among other books including From the Ruins of Empire.
Mishra is a columnist for Bloomberg View and the New York Times Book Review, and contributes regularly to The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and The New Yorker. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he resides in London.
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