A Passage to India  Unabridged, E.M. Forster
A Passage to India  Unabridged, E.M. Forster
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A Passage to India - Unabridged

Author: E.M. Forster

Narrator: Sara Nichols

Unabridged: 11 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/30/2024


Synopsis

One of E.M. Forster's most critically-acclaimed works, "A Passage to India" was chosen by Time Magazine as one of the best "All Time 100 Novels" and it won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Modern Library also lists the book as one of the 100 greatest works of 20th-century English literature. The story - one of Forster's darkest tales - revolves around a trip to India by British schoolmistress Adela Quested and her companion, Mrs. Moore. After meeting with a local physician, Dr. Aziz, the two visitors travel with him on a tour of the famous Marabar Caves. While exploring a dark cave alone, Adela is forced to fend off a mysterious attacker and Dr. Aziz - who became separated from the party - is accused of assault. A brilliant and troubling examination of privilege, racial tension and colonial rule, "A Passage to India" is often cited as Forster's masterpiece. The book has been adapted many times for the stage and screen, most famously for the Oscar-winning 1984 film directed by David Lean and starring Judy Davis, Peggy Ashcroft and Alec Guinness. "A Passage to India" is presented here in its original and unabridged format and has been narrated by renowned audiobook narrator Sara Nichols, who also gave voice to Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre," Willa Cather's "Prairie Trilogy" and the complete works of Jane Austen.

About E.M. Forster

Edward Morgan "E. M." Forster (1879–1970) was an English novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and librettist. Many of his novels, including A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India, examine class difference and hypocrisy in late 19th-century and early 20th-century British society. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature twenty times.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Baba on July 20, 2024

Oh wow... did I not see this coming! First published in 1924 and set in India in the 1920s the time when the British Raj was under observation, critique and ultimately the threat of the Indian Independence Movement, this drama centred around a woman seeking a more fulfilling life in India as she see......more

Goodreads review by Vit on October 31, 2023

Collision of cultures… Clash of religions… Conflict of interests… An old mother comes to visit her son who is the City Magistrate in India… Everything seems to be new and mysterious to her… She watched the moon, whose radiance stained with primrose the purple of the surrounding sky. In England the moo......more

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs on June 15, 2018

In a rather ironic piece of narration, E.M. Forster sums up my opinion of this book perfectly: “Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.......more

Goodreads review by Jeffrey on July 28, 2018

“Adventures do occur, but not punctually. Life rarely gives us what we want at the moment we consider appropriate.” Illustrations from the Folio Edition by Ian Ribbons. Adela Quested and Mrs. Moore have journeyed to India with the intention of arranging a marriage between Adela and Mrs. Moore’s so......more