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Where Angels Fear to Tread
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Title Description "Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand! Look at this letter! The man who wrote it will marry her, or murder her, or do for her somehow. He's a bounder, but he's not an English bounder. He's mysterious and terrible. He's got a country behind him that's upset people from the beginning of the world." When a young English widow takes off on the grand tour and along the way marries a penniless Italian, her in-laws are not amused. That the marriage should fail and poor Lilia die tragically are only to be expected. But that Lilia should have had a baby -- and that the baby should be raised as an Italian! -- are matters requiring immediate correction by Philip Herriton, his dour sister Harriet, and their well-meaning friend Miss Abbott. In his first novel, E. M. Forster anticipated the themes of cultural collision and the sterility of the English middle class that he would develop in A Room with a View and A Passage to India. Where Angels Fear to Tread is an accomplished, harrowing, and malevolently funny book, in which familiar notions of vice and virtue collapse underfoot and the best intentions go mortally awry. From the Trade Paperback edition. Recommendations Customers who ordered this book also ordered: 1. Emma by Jane Austen; read by Donada Peters. (CD or Tape) 2. 1984 by George Orwell; read by Richard Matthews. (CD or Tape) 3. Animal Farm by George Orwell; read by Richard Matthews. (CD or Tape) Customer Reviews Have you listened to this audiobook? Please submit your ratings and review it! |