A Passage to India Lib/E (Audiobook)

from fhudnell

In Chandrapore, Dr. Aziz, a young Muslim widower, meets the elderly Mrs. Moore who has come to India with Adela Quested to arrange a marriage between her son, Ronny Heaslop and Adela. Aziz and Mrs. Moore form an immediate bond, for reasons that were not really clear to me. After several meetings,...

from bodachliath

This was clearly an important novel in its day, but it is difficult to enjoy it today without being clouded by memories of films and other adaptations, and to understand the history without imposing hindsight. Having read Damon Galgut's novel on Forster and the events leading up to the publicatio...

from SandDune

Set in India in the years of the British Empire perhaps just before the First World War the book tells the story of Miss Quested, an Englishwoman who has travelled to Chandrapore in India to decide whether or not to marry Ronny Heaslop, the City Magistrate, whom she has known in England. Both Mis...

from mmoj

This book is not for those who want to jump in and devour a book. Mrs. Moore and Adela want to see the "real India" not just that which their government views as the most "civilised", i.e., most like British colonialism can make them. Mrs. Moore meets an Indian doctor who agrees to take Mrs. Moor...

from Widsith

'The past! the infinite greatness of the past!' thrilled Walt Whitman in 'A Passage to India'. A quarter of a century later, Forster borrowed Whitman's title, but with a very different mood in mind. In place of the American's wild-eyed certainties, Forster gives us echoes and confusion; instead o...