A Passage to India | Related Titles

Although A Passage to India stands far and above Forster's earlier novels, echoes and reverberations from those works, although not always easily recognizable, do appear in the 1924 volume. A most obvious comparison can be drawn in the characters of Ruth Wilcox (Howards End, 1910; see separate entry) and Mrs. Moore. Both possess a spiritual strength that transcends the social and political problems that cloud, respectively, Howards End and Chandrapore. Both women enter their respective fictional environments with frail health that will contribute to their deaths before the...

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