This is one of my favorite novels from one of my favorite novelists. As one of those "State of the Nation" novels, I really like the carefulness with which Forster unpacks the nuances and complications of English identity at this inflection point.
I'm also a really big fan of "A Passage to India," which is in my mind the single-best contemporaneous examination in fiction by a Western voice of the contradictions inherent in British colonialism.