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#5 in the "Gifts of Harry" Book Review Series
"A Passage to India" is set mostly in Chandrapore, India, in the early 1920's. Earlier today, just before finishing the book, I looked up Chandrapore in an atlas. Forster places it on the Ganges, which doesn't seem to be the case in reality; but this is a minute complaint to hold... Read full review »
"A Passage To India": Bridging Cultural Gaps
E.M. Forster's A Passage To India is a novel concerned with cultural disharmony that lay in British Colonial India in first part of the twentieth century. The novel adheres to Forster's inclination for concise, and compacted social exposition, wherein a single narrative encapsulates a much more... Read full review »
A short passage about India
Ambitious multi-racial picnic at spooky Marabar caves ends in disarray when Kensington intellectual, Adela Quested, throws a wobbly. "The British and the Indians must keep their place"; mocks college principal, Fielding, but the English Club of Chandrapore take him literally and unite in prejudice... Read full review »
Who knew it was a book?
I admit it. For once in my life I actually saw a movie before reading the book it was based on. Now, I try hard to never do this. (Read all three Lord of the Rings books in a few weeks to avoid seeing 2 Towers before finishing the trilogy) And yet, somehow, I saw Double Indemnity the movie three... Read full review »
Semi-upper-middle-class England meets the Raj
Despite the irony in my heading, I do think this is a great novel. I admire E.M.Forster because he was able to tell a cracking good story while
conveying a serious message.
The semi-upper-middle class English in the book are a young woman,Adela Quested, her aunt Mrs.Moore, her fiance...
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Meaningful Quotations from "Passage to India"
"What does unhappiness matter when we are all unhappy together?"
I find this statement to be very meaningful. It is an Urdu proverb shared by Dr. Aziz with the guests of the Bridge party. The reason that I find this line so profound is because of the importance it places on community. When...
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Passage to India - E. M. Forster - 9780679405498 - 0679405496
ISBN13: 9780679405498. ISBN10: 0679405496. by E. M. Forster. Published by Random House, Inc.. Edition: 91
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