A Passage to India Summary
E. M. Forster

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A Passage to India Summary

A Passage to India is a novel by award-winning author E. M. Forster. The novel begins by describing the city of Chandrapore, British India, the main setting for most of the story.

Dr. Aziz is a young surgeon working in a British-run hospital during the early 1920s, while India is still under the British Raj. Dr. Aziz meets with a few friends for dinner and they discuss the probability of Indians...

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A Passage to India - E. M. Forster - 1924

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A Passage to India - E. M. Forster - 1924 Introduction A Passage to India is the sixth and final novel by English writer Edward Morgan (E. M.) Forster. It received almost universal acclaim when it was... Read more

A Passage to India

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A Passage to India by E. M. Forster E. M. Forster visited India on two separate occasions, in 1912 and 1922, beo fore the full onset of Indian nationalism that eventually led to the country's indep... Read more

E. M. Forster Biographies (9)

E. M. Forster

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At first glimpse, the work of the British novelist and essayist, E. M. Forster, would hardly be thought to be the stuff of Hollywood. His finely detailed novels explore the Edwardian world of society ... Read more

E. M. Forster

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January 1, 1879. E.M. Forster was born in London, England, the only child of Alice Clara (Lily) Whichelo and Edward Morgan Llewellyn Forster, an architect. His name had been registered as Henri, but a... Read more

Edward Morgan Forster

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The English novelist and essayist Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970) was concerned with the conflict between the freedom of the spirit and the conventions of society.Educated at Tonbridge School (which... Read more

E(dward) M(organ) Forster

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During the Edwardian years and into the 1920s, E. M. Forster consolidated his reputation as a novelist of distinction and as a persuasive man of letters. He attained the greatest recognition and autho... Read more

E(dward) M(organ) Forster

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E. M. Forster's reputation as a writer may justly be said to rest, essentially, on his novels. His output as a novelist was not large: only six novels were completed, of which the fifth, Maurice (fini... Read more

E(dward) M(organ) Forster

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Edward Morgan Forster, though best known as a novelist, also distinguished himself in other genres, including the short story. His first collection of stories as well as four of his six novels appeare... Read more

E(dward) M(organ) Forster

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E. M. Forster holds a rather unusual position in English literature. By the age of thirty-two he had gained recognition for four out of the five novels that were to appear in his lifetime. After that ... Read more

E(dward) M(organ) Forster

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In a 1959 lecture, "Three Countries," E. M. Forster called himself "a confirmed globetrotter," but the impact of travel on his life and work cannot adequately be suggested by that light phrase. What F... Read more

Edward Morgan Forster

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Biography EssayDuring the Edwardian years and into the 1920s, E. M. Forster consolidated his reputation as a novelist of distinction and as a persuasive man of letters. He attained the greatest recogn... Read more

Essays & Analysis (14)

Critical Essay by Malcolm Bradbury

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Critical Essay by Robin Jared Lewis

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Critical Essay by Kieran Dolin

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Critical Essay by Wen-Chi Lin

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Yes, I agree with EM Forster that A Passage to India is not a political novel. Instead, it explores the vastness of infinity and seems (at first) to portray nothing. In those two words alone, `infin... Read more

Literary Analysis of "A Passage to India"

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A Passage to India is a popular novel, written by E.M. Forster and published in 1952. It is based on agreements and disagreements, and beliefs and prejudices that can connect and divide people. Brit... Read more

Issue of Friendship in "A Passage to India"

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In A Passage to India, Forster presents what seems to me to be a section of a novel that brings up quite regularly the possibility of a white English colonial forming a friendship with a native of Ind... Read more

A Passage to India: Video Vs. Novel

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Passage to India: How the Truth That Should Remain Hidden Is Revealed

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In everyday life, people hide the truth in order to be polite and not hurt others. White lies are constantly being spoken in order to not hurt anyone. In A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster, the way... Read more

E M Forster and the British Raj in a Passage to India

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The early years of the twentieth century saw the rise of the novel as a popular genre in the literature of the war-struck Edwardian England. Novelists like Joseph Conrad, E.M.Forster, Virginia Woolf,... Read more

Comparison of Heat and Dust and a Passage to India

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Set in colonial India during the 1920s, 'Heat and Dust' by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala tells the story of Olivia, a beautiful woman suffocated by the propriety and social constraints of her position as the w... Read more

Relationship between Good and Evil

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"They (Indians) are not to blame, they have not a dog's chance--we should be like them if we settled here" (184) - Mr. McBryde, A Passage to India, 1912 During the early 1900s, the British people ... Read more

Aziz and Fielding's Relationship in "A Passage to India"

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Throughout the entire novel of A Passage to India by E.M. Forster, there is the same question: Will the English and Indians ever maintain a healthy friendship? In the beginning, the Indian Aziz is a... Read more

A Passage to India and Orientalism

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A Passage to India and Orientalism When in 1978 Edward W. Said published his book Orientalism, it present... Read more

Free Book Notes (1)

A Passage to India

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A Passage to India Book Notes is a free study guide on A Passage to India by E.M. Forster. Browse the summary below:   Author Biography / Context of the Work   One-Page Plot Summary &n... Read more

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