A Passage To India
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Good–Fair, honest copy of the true first edition (Edward Arnold & Co., London, 1924), retaining its original unclipped dust jacket, which is chipped and worn along the edges with no major loss; the text block is toned/yellowed with light foxing throughout, and the half-title page is lacking; the binding hinges are slightly cracked but the text block is complete with no loose or missing leaves, and the boards remain clean with no staining.
Published in 1924, E. M. Forster's A Passage to India stands as one of the most penetrating and enduring critiques of British imperialism, set against the vast, sunbaked landscapes of colonial India during the twilight years of the British Raj. The novel chronicles the ill-fated friendship between Dr. Aziz, a sensitive and idealistic Indian Muslim physician, and Cyril Fielding, an open-minded English schoolmaster, a relationship tested to its breaking point when a young Englishwoman, Adela Quested, makes a sensational and ambiguous accusation following a visit to the mysterious Marabar Caves — an event that tears the fragile social fabric of the fictional city of Chandrapore apart along the sharpest lines of race, empire, and mistrust. Forster constructs his narrative with a cool, ironic precision that illuminates the vast psychological and cultural chasm between the coloniser and the colonised, arguing with quiet ferocity that genuine human connection is rendered nearly impossible under the crushing weight of imperial power. The novel is structured in three symbolic parts — Mosque, Caves, and Temple — mirroring the spiritual and philosophical journey at its core, and drawing on Hindu, Muslim, and Christian mysticism to pose unanswerable questions about truth, belonging, and the nature of reality itself. Widely regarded as Forster's masterpiece and a landmark of 20th-century English literature, A Passage to India leaves the reader haunted by its final, devastating question: can the coloniser and the colonised ever truly be friends, and if not now — when?
Author: E. M. Forster
Format: Hardback
Published: 1924, Edward Arnold & Co.
Genre: Classic fiction
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Good–Fair, honest copy of the true first edition (Edward Arnold & Co., London, 1924), retaining its original unclipped dust jacket, which is chipped and worn along the edges with no major loss; the text block is toned/yellowed with light foxing throughout, and the half-title page is lacking; the binding hinges are slightly cracked but the text block is complete with no loose or missing leaves, and the boards remain clean with no staining.
Published in 1924, E. M. Forster's A Passage to India stands as one of the most penetrating and enduring critiques of British imperialism, set against the vast, sunbaked landscapes of colonial India during the twilight years of the British Raj. The novel chronicles the ill-fated friendship between Dr. Aziz, a sensitive and idealistic Indian Muslim physician, and Cyril Fielding, an open-minded English schoolmaster, a relationship tested to its breaking point when a young Englishwoman, Adela Quested, makes a sensational and ambiguous accusation following a visit to the mysterious Marabar Caves — an event that tears the fragile social fabric of the fictional city of Chandrapore apart along the sharpest lines of race, empire, and mistrust. Forster constructs his narrative with a cool, ironic precision that illuminates the vast psychological and cultural chasm between the coloniser and the colonised, arguing with quiet ferocity that genuine human connection is rendered nearly impossible under the crushing weight of imperial power. The novel is structured in three symbolic parts — Mosque, Caves, and Temple — mirroring the spiritual and philosophical journey at its core, and drawing on Hindu, Muslim, and Christian mysticism to pose unanswerable questions about truth, belonging, and the nature of reality itself. Widely regarded as Forster's masterpiece and a landmark of 20th-century English literature, A Passage to India leaves the reader haunted by its final, devastating question: can the coloniser and the colonised ever truly be friends, and if not now — when?