A Passage To India

Among the greatest novels of the twentieth century and the basis for director David lean’s Academy award-winning film. A passage to India (1924) is a novel by English author e. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian Independence movement in the 1920s. The story is set in pre-Independence India when it was ruled by the British and it questions whether a friendship between a British person and an Indian would have been possible in those prejudiced times. A passage to India was selected as one of the 100 great works of 20th century English literature by the modern library.