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A Passage to India / E.M. Forster ; retold by Clare West.

By: West, Clare.
Contributor(s): Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970. Passage to India.
Series: Oxford Bookworms Library ; Graded Readers ; Human Interest. Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2009Edition: Simplified ed.Description: 135 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780194792714 (pbk); 0194792714 (pbk).Subject(s): Readers (Adult) | Readers for new literates | British -- India -- Fiction | India -- FictionGenre/Form: Graded Readers.Online resources: Publisher's Website.
Contents:
PART ONE: Mosque 1. A visit to a mosque 2. The bridge party 3. Tea with Mr Fielding 4. Aziz and his friends
PART TWO: Caves 5. A visit to the caves 6. An unexpected arrest 7. Taking sides 8. Doubts 9. The trial 10. Rescue 11. The effects of the trial 12. Departure from India 13. A rumour
PART THREE: Temple 14. The end of friendship
GLOSSARY
ACTIVITIES: Before Reading
ACTIVITIES: While Reading
ACTIVITIES: After Reading
About the Author
About the Bookworms LIbrary
Summary: "A mysterious incident at the Marabar Caves, involving Adela Quested, newly arrived from England, and the charming Dr. Aziz, an Indian doctor, leads to a drama that divides the British and Indian communities in anger, distrust, and fear. Forster's great novel about India during British rule brings to life all the dangers and misunderstandings of colonialism but, as Forster himself wrote, the story is 'about something wider than politics, about the search of the human race for a more lasting home, about the universe as embodied in the Indian earth and the Indian sky, about the horror lurking in the Marabar Caves..." (Book Cover)
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"Stage 6 (2500 headwords)."--Half title page.

"Word count 29,773"--Cover page [iv].

PART ONE: Mosque
1. A visit to a mosque
2. The bridge party
3. Tea with Mr Fielding
4. Aziz and his friends

PART TWO: Caves
5. A visit to the caves
6. An unexpected arrest
7. Taking sides
8. Doubts
9. The trial
10. Rescue
11. The effects of the trial
12. Departure from India
13. A rumour

PART THREE: Temple 14. The end of friendship

GLOSSARY

ACTIVITIES: Before Reading

ACTIVITIES: While Reading

ACTIVITIES: After Reading

About the Author

About the Bookworms LIbrary

"A mysterious incident at the Marabar Caves, involving Adela Quested, newly arrived from England, and the charming Dr. Aziz, an Indian doctor, leads to a drama that divides the British and Indian communities in anger, distrust, and fear. Forster's great novel about India during British rule brings to life all the dangers and misunderstandings of colonialism but, as Forster himself wrote, the story is 'about something wider than politics, about the search of the human race for a more lasting home, about the universe as embodied in the Indian earth and the Indian sky, about the horror lurking in the Marabar Caves..." (Book Cover)

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