A Passage to India

Exploring issues of colonialism, faith and the limits of comprehension, E.M. Forster''s A Passage to India is published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. br>br>When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced ''Anglo-Indian'' community. Determined to escape the parochial English enclave and 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, and the well-respected doctor soon finds himself at the centre of a scandal that rouses violent passions among both the British and their Indian subjects. A masterly portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A Passage to India compellingly depicts the fate of individuals caught between the great political and cultural conflicts of the modern world.br>br>''His great book ... masterly in its presence and its lucidity''br>Anita Desai>

Product details

• Authors: E M Forster, E. M. Forster, E.M. Forster, Edward M. Forster, Edward Morgan Forster
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 20.08.2015
• EAN: 9780241214992
• ISBN: 978-0-241-21499-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 181 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Essential Penguin; The Penguin English Library; Penguin Essentials; Penguin English Library; Penguin Essentials; Essential Penguin
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Englisch; Lektüre, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary