ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Forster is the author of six novels: Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, Howard’s End, A Passage to India, and Maurice, the last published posthumously. He also wrote a number short stories, in addition to criticism and essays. His books have been adapted into several popular movies.

Detailed explanation-2: -This is the first edition of E M Forster’s A Passage to India, which was published in 1924. It is widely considered to be Forster’s finest work and it became his last novel, despite the fact that he remained active as a writer and critic for more than four decades after its publication.

Detailed explanation-3: -Forster’s A Passage to India, published in 1924, tells a story of the power of colonialism, the tension between spirituality and morality, and the inescapability of evil. Forster wrote this novel after traveling to India in 1912 and volunteering in Egypt during World War I.

Detailed explanation-4: -APTI, published in 1924, is the last novel of E. M. Forster. The title of it is taken from Walt Whitman’s poem Passage to India which is about the spiritual passage or journey that a man must take to be brought face to face with ultimate reality.