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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl
Does anyone know why A Passage to India was Forster's last novel? He was still young. He lived another 4 1/2 decades. I am just curious about why.
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There is debate about this specific question.
It might help this quote from The Cambridge Companion to E. M. Forster, Edited by David Bradshaw, University of Oxford.
Then, in the mid-1920s, with the plaudits of both reviewers and the wider reading public ringing in his ears, buoyant sales in both the United Kingdom and the United States, and two prestigious prizes for Passage on his mantelshelf, Forster the novelist shut up shop. His last is the only one of his six novels to be entirely set abroad and at the time it seemed to signal Forster’s departure for new fictional horizons, yet in reality it marked his journey’s end. He was only halfway through his life (he died in 1970) but he would never again be tempted to repeat Passage’s extravagant success. ‘I cant [sic] believe there will be anoth[er] novel’, he told a correspondent around this time. ‘The legs of my camera could not stand the strain.’1
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The reasons why Forster dried up as a novelist are touched on by a number of contributors to this book ...