The Hill Of Devi

Author : E. M. Forster
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 079534659X
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hill of Devi written by E. M. Forster and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential companion to A Passage to India, a collection of the author’s own letters that read like “a close personal friend has shared his impressions” (Kirkus Reviews). In 1912, a young E. M. Forster traveled to India to serve as a secretary to the Maharajah of Dewas, a small Indian state. He was elevated to the rank of a minor noble, and eventually given the state’s highest honor, the Tukoji Rao III gold medal. This brief episode in Forster’s life became the basis for his masterwork, A Passage to India. In the letters included in The Hill of Devi, he shares his personal journey of discovering his beloved India for the first time. Forster paints a vivid, intimate picture of Dewas State—a strange, bewildering, and enchanting slice of pre-independence India. In this collection, Forster shares insight into the lives of Indian royalty and accounts of the stark contrast between their excesses and the poverty he encounters. From letters that set the scene for Forster’s lifelong friendship with the Maharaja, to an essay on the Maharaja himself and Forster’s experiences as the Maharaja’s personal secretary, The Hill of Devi is a fascinating chronicle of the author’s experience in the land he called “the oddest corner of the world outside Alice in Wonderland.”

Author : Edward Morgan Forster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hill of Devi and Other Indian Writings written by Edward Morgan Forster and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : E.M. Forster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hill of Devi written by E.M. Forster and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : E. M. Forster
Publisher : Eland Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781780601601
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hill of Devi written by E. M. Forster and published by Eland Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-25 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novelist E. M. Forster opens the door on life in a remote Maharajah's court in the early twentieth century, a "record of a vanished civilization." Through letters from his time visiting and working there, he introduces us to a 14th century political system in "the oddest corner of the world outside Alice in Wonderland" where the young Maharajah of Devas, "certainly a genius and possibly a saint," led a state centered on spiritual aspirations. The Hill of Devi chronicles Forster's infatuation and exasperation, fascination, and amusement at this idiosyncratic court, leading us with him to its heart and the eight-day festival of Gokul Ashtami, marking the birth of Krishna, where we see His Highness Maharajah Sir Tukoji Rao III dancing before the altar "like David before the Ark."

Author : Edward Morgan Forstar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hill of Devi written by Edward Morgan Forstar and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0791093735
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Novelists and Novels written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read what Bloom had to say on the world's great novelists including Miguel de Cervantes, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemmingway and more.

Author : Edward Morgan Forster
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780808576884
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Passage to India written by Edward Morgan Forster and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1965 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic account of the clash of cultures in British India after the turn of the century.

Author : Sunil Kumar Sarker
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN 13 : 9788126907915
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book E.M. Forster's A Passage to India written by Sunil Kumar Sarker and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2007-06-13 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E.M. Forster'S Celebrated Novel A Passage To India Is Prescribed In The Syllabus Of Almost All The Universities In India, At Both The Undergraduate And Postgraduate Levels. It Is Really A Complex And Difficult Novel, And Books That Can Well Help The Students, In Particular, In Their Having A Grip On It Are Far Too Few, If Not Non-Existent. With A View To Fill This Gap And Cater To The Academic Needs Of Readers, The Present Book Has Been Written. Briefly Outlining The Life And Works Of E.M Forster, It Makes An In-Depth Study Of His Novel A Passage To India. The Key Elements Of The Novel Like Plot, Characterization, Fantasy, Prophecy, Pattern, Rhythm, Symbols, Imagery, Mystery, Poetry, Music, Tone, Etc., Have Been Analytically Discussed. In Addition, A Character-Sketch Of Prominent Characters Has Been Skillfully Presented. Further, Memorable Quotations Included In The Appendix Will Not Only Acquaint Readers With The Original Text But Will Also Infuse Them With Enthusiasm For All The Works Of Forster. Readers Of The Present Book Are Provided With Bibliography And Index Which Will Definitely Prove Useful Study-Aids To Them In Pursuing The Studies Further. For Students, Researchers As Well As Teachers Of English Literature, The Book Is Indispensable.

Author : Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438114923
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edwardian and Georgian Fiction written by Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the great writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, from Thomas Hardy to Joseph Conrad.

Author : Devi S. Laskar
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640093419
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Atlas of Reds and Blues written by Devi S. Laskar and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Washington Post "Best Book of the Year" grapples with the complexities of the second–generation American experience, what it means to be a woman of color in the workplace, and a sister, a wife, and a mother to daughters in today's America. When a woman—known only as Mother—moves her family from Atlanta to its wealthy suburbs, she discovers that neither the times nor the people have changed since her childhood in a small Southern town. Despite the intervening decades, Mother is met with the same questions: Where are you from? No, where are you really from? The American–born daughter of Bengali immigrants, she finds that her answer―Here―is never enough. Mother's simmering anger breaks through one morning, when, during a violent and unfounded police raid on her home, she finally refuses to be complacent. As she lies bleeding from a gunshot wound, her thoughts race from childhood games with her sister and visits to cousins in India, to her time in the newsroom before having her three daughters, to the early days of her relationship with a husband who now spends more time flying business class than at home. Drawing inspiration from the author's own terrifying experience of a raid on her home, Devi S. Laskar's debut novel explores, in exquisite, lyrical prose, an alternate reality that might have been. "The entire novel takes place over the course of a single morning. . . and the effect is devastatingly potent." —Marie Claire "Devi S. Laskar's The Atlas of Reds and Blues is as narratively beautiful as it is brutal . . . I've never read a novel that does nearly as much in so few pages." —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy