A Passage to India (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML 218)
New York: The Modern Library, 1946. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good / Good. Item #2346842
1946-48 printing of Toledano 218.1, binding/jacket style 8h, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers, $1.25 jacket price, 334 titles on jacket verso. Light stain on top edge, jacket foxed and toned, ink name on half-title page.
322, [8] pp. Brief biographical note on the author precedes text. Britain's three-hundred-year relationship with the Indian subcontinent produced much fiction of interest but only one indisputable masterpiece: E.M. Forster's A Passage to India, published in 1924, at the height of the Indian independence movement. Centering on an ambiguous incident between a young Englishwoman of uncertain stability and an Indian doctor eager to know his conquerors better, Forster's book explores, with unexampled profundity, both the historical chasm between races and the eternal one between individuals struggling to ease their isolation and make sense of their humanity.
Price: $35.00