Where Angels Fear To Tread (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Forster, E.M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141185317 ISBN 13: 9780141185316

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2001

Synopsis

A group of well-bred English people react violently when they are confronted by a situation outside their experience. The widowed Lilia marries an Italian, and the contrast between the vitality of disreputable Gino, and the narrowness of the English, forms the central theme of the story.

About this title

Book Description:

A classic novel, irresistibly repackaged for Christmas.

From the Back Cover:

On travelling to Italy with her friend Caroline Abbott, the impulsive English widow Lilia Herriton outrages her dead husband's family by meeting and quickly becoming engaged to a dashing but deeply unsuitable Italian man twelve years her junior. Infuriated, her ex-brother-in-law Philip sets off from England to her new home in the Tuscan town of Monteriano - but, finding himself unable to persuade Lilia to leave her handsome, uncouth new lover, returns to England without her. When Lilia's marriage leads to sudden tragedy, however, Philip and caroline feel compelled to return once more to Italy, where they are forced to examine their own lives. Deeply moving, Where Angels Fear to Tread is amongst the greatest twentieth-century literary explorations of vice, virtue and the nature of prejudice.

This edition reproduces the Abinger text, and also includes further reading, notes, a chronology, an introduction by Ruth Padel discussing division and culture clash in the novel and an appendix detailing an exchange about the novel between Forster and the poet R.C. Trevelyan.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0141185317
• ISBN 13: 9780141185316
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176