Where Angels Fear to Tread
A wonderful story of questioning, disillusionment, and conversion, Where Angels Fear to Tread tells the story of a prim English family's encounter with the foreign land of Italy. When attractive, impulsive English widow Lilia marries Gino, a dashing and highly unsuitable Italian twelve years her junior, her snobbish former in-laws make no attempts to hide their disapproval. But their expedition to face the uncouth foreigner takes an unexpected turn when they return to Italy under tragic circumstances intending to rescue Lilia and Gino's baby.
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February 26, 2008E. M. Forster (1879–1970) was born Edward Morgan Forster in London. He attended Tonbridge School as a day boy and went on to King's College, Cambridge, in 1897. With King's he had a lifelong connection and was elected to an Honorary Fellowship in 1946. Forster wrote six novels, four of which appeared before World War I: Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), The Longest Journey (1907), A Room with a View (1908), and Howard's End (1910). An interval of fourteen years elapsed before he published A Passage to India. It won both the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Finished in 1914, his novel on homosexual themes, Maurice, was published in posthumously in 1971. He also published two volumes of short stories; two…
A Passage to India
E. M. Forster; Edited by Oliver Stallybrass; Introduction by Pankaj Mishra
The Longest Journey
E. M. Forster
Howards End
E. M. Forster
A Room with a View
E. M. Forster
A Passage to India
E. M. Forster
Untouchable
Mulk Raj Anand
Where Angels Fear to Tread
E. M. Forster; Introduction by Ruth Padel
A Room with a View
E. M. Forster; Introduction by Wendy Moffat; Notes by Malcolm Bradbury