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Beautifully written, subtly satiric but also cringe-inducing at times. Forster's message that ultimately we can't transcend our differences is aptly illustrated. He's not as enlightened as he thinks or as 21st-century readers would like to see, but he's incisive when it comes to the English take on themselves and "inferior" races.
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This book provides a nice social commentary on Indian-English relations during England's occupied rule of India. However, the story was much too slow in my opinion. I can tell that this was Forster's last work. I'm glad that I gave him a try, but it will be awhile before I read him again.
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When you start reading this book you know you are in the hands of an author who knows what he is about. It is a product of its time, and some parts of it read as quaint now-it is interesting how language changes. When did you last call someone "a bounder" for example? Also, it is difficult now to imagine a society where a woman can cause such a fuss about being pulled by the straps of her bag, and frightened a little. In the entire incident which is the centre of the book nothing really happened
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