THE HILL OF DEVI; By E. M. Forster

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953. First American Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Photos. 8vo, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, archival polyester-protected dark blue pictorial dust jacket (clipped) with dark image of the Hill of Devi; illustrated with 8 pages of B&W glossy photos taken & a diagram [p.34]; twilight photo of the Hill as endpapers, 267 pages. E[dward] M[organ] Forster OM CH (1879 - 1970) was an English fiction writer, essayist and librettist. Many of his novels examine class difference and hypocrisy, including A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). The last novel, which built upon his experiences with the Maharajah of Dewas, India, brought him his greatest success. Forster was nominated several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. <br/> <br/> UNCOMMON title by Forster. Collects the author's commentary and letters from his two visits to the Maharah: as a house guest; later as his Private Secretary. These profound experiences as a privileged colonial with important connections to the disappearing rajahs inform Forster's masterpiece, A Passage to India. <br/> <br/> Slight wear to the cloth and clipped dust jacket (mainly along its lower edges). No previous owner's markings.