A Passage to India | Suggested Reading

A Passage to India What Do I Read Next?

E. M. Forster's first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread, was published in 1905. Set it Italy, It concerns the tragic relations between an English family and a young Italian man.

Forster's third novel, A Room With a View (1908), is also set in Italy. It too focuses on a clash of cultures, contrasting the conventional behavior of English characters with the more spontaneous life of the Italian characters.

Considered second only to A Passage to India among Forster's novels, Howards End (1910) is a subtle study of English class distinctions and the uneasy relationship between aesthetic and materialistic outlooks on life. An Edwardian novel of manners, it is the most "English" of Forster's novels. In it, Forster coined the motto that best expresses his view of how to live a full life: "Only connect." ("Only connect the prose and passion, and both will be exalted, and human...
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