Passage to India by E. M. Forster
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(Paperback - Reissue)
- Pub. Date: March 1965
- 368pp
- Sales Rank: 7,157
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Product Details
- Series: Abinger Edition of E. M. Forster Series
- ISBN-13: 9780156711425
- ISBN: 0156711427
- Edition Description: Reissue
Synopsis
In this hard-hitting novel, first published in 1924, the murky personal relationship between an Englishwoman and an Indian doctor mirrors the troubled politics of colonialism. Adela Quested and her fellow British travelers, eager to experience the “real” India, develop a friendship with the urbane Dr. Aziz. While on a group outing, Adela and Dr. Aziz visit the Marabar caves together. As they emerge, Adela accuses the doctor of assaulting her. While Adela never actually claims she was raped, the decisions she makes ostracize her from both her countrymen and the natives, setting off a complex chain of events that forever changes the lives of all involved. This intense and moving story asks the listener serious questions about preconceptions regarding race, sex, religion, and truth. A political and philosophical masterpiece, this engrossing novel is also exotic and descriptive, making it exceptionally well suited to audio.
Herbert S. Gorman
A single reading of A Passage to India settles the question. Mr. E. M. Forster is indubitably one of the finest novelists living in England today, and A Passage to India is one of the saddest, keenest, most beautifully written ironic novels of the time. . . . [It] is both a challenge and an indictment. It is also a revelation. -- Books of the Century; New York Times review, August 1924
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A graceful writer with a keen eye for the bittersweetness bound in differences of class and culture, E. M. Forster had an abbreviated but remarkably successful career as a novelist and established himself as one of England's most insightful 20th-century writers.
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Bored out of my mind!by WritingBella
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June 26, 2009: Nothing caught my attention until Adela went insane and then after that it got even more boring. Terrible.
Passage to Blandnessby Anonymous
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July 14, 2007: I found Passage, written in 1924, a fine book, although, unlike many of the other 'Classics' I've recently consumed, I doubt that I will remember anything from its pages. In order to completely understand the story of Passage, I resorted to using two dictionaries, as my 75,000 word Funk & Wagnalls often did not contain the needed word and I was forced to reach for an unabridged volume. The real action, the crux of the book, doesn't occur until about one hundred pages and twelve chapters in, and then it flies by as fast as a bat chasing a locust. The climax comes at page 188, but the book drags on for another eighty pages, with the writer hinting that there just might be a shocking twist at the end. There isn't. Often I could not comprehend who was speaking, and the author, using several names for the same person, sometimes further confused my simple mind. E. M. Forster's analogies were almost always bland, but maybe that is a factor of the book having been written over eighty years ago. I found A Passage to India not up to the caliber of the other titles I have recently read that fall into that vague category of 'Literature'.
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