A Passage to India by E. M. Forster (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

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This engaging summary presents an analysis of A Passage to India by E. M. Forster, which dramatizes the relationship between the colonisers and the locals in early 20th-century Anglo-India. The latent tensions between the two communities come to a head when a respected Indian doctor is accused of assaulting a young British woman, who had previously befriended him out of a desire to see the “real India”. A Passage to India is widely considered to be among Forster’s greatest achievements; he is also known for his novels Where Angels Fear to Tread, A Room with a View and Howards End.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: BrightSummaries.com
• Release date: Mar 28, 2019
• ISBN: 9782808014748

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ENGLISH NOVELIST

Born in London in 1879.

Died in Coventry in 1970.

Notable works:

A Room with a View (1908), novel

Aspects of the Novel (1927), literary criticism

The Hill of Devi (1953), travel memoir

Edward Morgan Forster wrote six novels and several other works of fiction and non-fiction in his lifetime. He became financially independent at an early age due to a large inheritance. In 1907, he tutored Syed Ross Mahood, who became his lifelong friend and whom A Passage to India is dedicated to. He is believed to have been in love with Mahood, a feeling that was not reciprocated. Forster always remained quiet about his homosexuality. In 1913-14, he wrote a book about a gay couple, Maurice, which during his lifetime was circulated only among a selected group of friends, including the members of the Bloomsbury Group (a group of modernist writers and intellectuals in Bloomsbury, London, whose most prominent members included Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence). He requested that the book be published posthumously, in 1971.

Forster undertook two journeys to India, in 1912 and 1921, which served as inspiration for A Passage to India. His last work of fiction during his lifetime, the short story collection The Eternal Moment, was published in 1928. After that, he continued to give lectures and publish