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Hardcover. 12mo. Published by Edward Arnold & Co., London, UK. 1924. 325 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ is present but has heavy shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is in three pieces with the panels separated from the spine with loss at the joints). Bound in red cloth with titles present to the spine and the front board. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. Among the greatest novels of the twentieth century, E. M. Forster's sweeping tale of prejudice and racial tension is set in colonial India at the turn of the century. As the Indian independence movement is gaining momentum but while the country is still under the rule of the British Raj, Dr. Aziz, a young Indian Muslim physician, befriends several English tourists in spite of expressions of caution from his Indian friends. What begins as an unexceptional but well-meaning sightseeing outing to a famous cave erupts into a misunderstanding with devastating consequences. E. M. Forster (1879–1970) was an English fiction writer, essayist, biographer, and travel writer whose most popular novels include A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India. Before his death in 1970, he was nominated for a Nobel Prize in Literature twenty times in fifteen separate years. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 325 pages.

A Passage to India is a novel by E.M. Forster that explores the impact of British colonial rule on India through the lens of personal relationships and cultural misunderstandings.