E.M. Forster's Where Angels Fear to Tread is amongst the greatest
twentieth-century literary explorations of vice, virtue and the
nature of prejudice, edited with notes by Oliver Stallybrass and an
introduction by Ruth Padel in Penguin Classics. 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 Gino, 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. 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. E. M. Forster (1879-1970) was a noted English
author and critic and a member of the Bloomsbury group. His first
novel, Where Angels Fear To Tread appeared in 1905. The Longest
Journey appeared in 1907, followed by A Room With A View (1908),
based partly on the material from extended holidays in Italy with
his mother. Howards End (1910) was a story that centered on an
English country house and dealt with the clash between two
families, one interested in art and literature, the other only in
business. Maurice was revised several times during his life, and
finally published posthumously in 1971. If you enjoyed Where Angels
Fear to Tread, you might enjoy Forster's A Room With a View, also
available in Penguin Classics.
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