First Penguin paperback edition of Forster's acclaimed book set in British colonial India during the rise of the Indian independence movement — often numbered among the greatest novels of the 20th century.
Very good.
Price: $75.00
"Down with the English anyhow. That's certain."
A PASSAGE TO INDIA was the product of Forster's longstanding interest in India, intensified by his close friendship with Syed Ross Masood, vice chandellor of Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh, and grounded in his own travels through India in 1912 as well as his 1921 position as private secretary to the Maharajah of Dewas (both later described in THE HILL OF DEVI).
The most successful of Forster's novels, it was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse and also inspired a 1960 Forster-approved play by Santha Rama Rau as well as the 1984 film by David Lean.
Read more: Kirkpatrick, A Bibliography of E.M. Forster, A10c; Bloom, E.M. Forster's A Passage to India; McCrum, "100 Best Novels: No 48 - A Passage to India by EM Forster," in The Guardian, 18 Aug 2014.
First edition thus. London: Penguin, (1936). 7'' x 4.25''. Original orange and white wrappers. 287, [1] pages. Light edgewear and toning, shallow chip to rear wrapper, slight spine lean.
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