![]() Yet, in that time, despite the intervention of the war years, he had published three books: The Celestial Omnibus (1911), Alexandria: A History and a Guide (1922), and Pharos and Pharillon (1923), a book of literary and historical sketches. This, in turn, is precisely because of the narrative's simultaneous breadth of reference and radical indeterminacy.Īfter Howards End, and after producing four novels in six years, Forster appeared to the general reading public to lie largely dormant for fourteen years, until A Passage to India appeared in 1924. Despite literary criticism's changing focal points over the decades, from politics and spirituality through to ethnicity and sexuality, it has always kept A Passage to India firmly in its sights because Forster's novel offers fertile ground for the broadest range of analytical and theoretical perspectives. ![]() The majority of critics regard it as his finest work yet no consensus has emerged about its meanings, partly because the book has proven highly responsive to so many approaches. ![]() A Passage to India is the most controversial of Forster's novels. ![]()
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