A Passage to India
British novelist, 1879–1970.
A Passage to India is a 1924 novel by E.M. Forster.
On 6 of the 16 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- E.M. Forster
- First published
- 1924
- Length
- 416 pages (UK paperback)
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Empire and colonialism, Political
Is A Passage to India worth reading?
6 of the 16 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them 100 Best Novels (board's list) (Modern Library) and 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 Best Novels (board's list) (Modern Library, 1998) | No. 25 | See the list |
| 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph, 2009) | No. 22 | See the list |
| All-Time 100 Novels (Time, 2005) | Listed | See the list |
| The 100 best novels written in English (The Guardian / Observer, 2015) | Listed | See the list |
| The 100 greatest British novels (BBC Culture, 2015) | No. 50 | See the list |
| The 100 greatest novels of all time (The Observer, 2003) | Listed | See the list |
Best edition of A Passage to India
The edition we link to is the Penguin Classics paperback (2021), 416 pages.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics (paperback, 2021)
- Pages
- 416
- ISBN
- 9780241540428
How critics and readers rate A Passage to India
Critics rate it most highly: it earned 51% of the points available on critics' lists, against 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
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