Article: Framing the Other: history and literary verisimilitude in E.M. Forster's 'The Hill of Devi.'

Here is a novelist with almost all the gifts, yet it is nearly thirty years since he exercised them on the grand scale of A Passage to India. Mr. Lionel Trilling has said that he "declined greatness," he made the gran rifiuoto.

L. P. Hartley, "Life with the Maharajah"

Forster wrote as a half-insider. He had been private secretary to the Maharajah of Dewas State Senior, in which capacity he was once preposterously photographed, wearing a long-skirted spotted gown and a sort of oriental tam-o'-shanter, in very English lace-up shoes against a painted background of flowers and mullioned windows. But he was anything but Anglo-Indian, only a life-long college man translated ...

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