A Passage To England
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - tears; clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning and foxing. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Good.
For a Bengali intellectual who had spent his entire life immersed in the culture and literature of England without ever setting foot on its shores, the moment of arrival carried the weight of a lifelong dream — and A Passage to England is the remarkable account of that reckoning. Nirad C. Chaudhuri chronicles his first visit to England in 1955 with the eyes of an outsider who paradoxically knows the culture from the inside out, presenting a series of vivid, incisive observations on English society, landscape, art, and character that are as illuminating as they are unexpected. The work stands as a masterpiece of cross-cultural commentary, inverting the imperial gaze with wit and intellectual precision. Chaudhuri argues that the England he encountered was both deeply familiar — shaped by decades of reading English poetry, history, and fiction — and profoundly surprising in its human texture. Written with the elegant, uncompromising prose that defined his career, the book invites readers to see England anew through the eyes of one of the subcontinent's most formidable minds, leaving one to wonder whether understanding a culture from afar might sometimes be the keenest vantage point of all.
Author: Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Format: Hardback
Published: 1960, RU
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - tears; clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning and foxing. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Good.
For a Bengali intellectual who had spent his entire life immersed in the culture and literature of England without ever setting foot on its shores, the moment of arrival carried the weight of a lifelong dream — and A Passage to England is the remarkable account of that reckoning. Nirad C. Chaudhuri chronicles his first visit to England in 1955 with the eyes of an outsider who paradoxically knows the culture from the inside out, presenting a series of vivid, incisive observations on English society, landscape, art, and character that are as illuminating as they are unexpected. The work stands as a masterpiece of cross-cultural commentary, inverting the imperial gaze with wit and intellectual precision. Chaudhuri argues that the England he encountered was both deeply familiar — shaped by decades of reading English poetry, history, and fiction — and profoundly surprising in its human texture. Written with the elegant, uncompromising prose that defined his career, the book invites readers to see England anew through the eyes of one of the subcontinent's most formidable minds, leaving one to wonder whether understanding a culture from afar might sometimes be the keenest vantage point of all.