Where Angels Fear To Tread
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the golden hills of Tuscany, a seemingly impulsive decision ignites a collision of worlds that neither England nor Italy can contain. E. M. Forster's debut novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread, chronicles the scandal that erupts when the young widow Lilia Herriton, on a trip to Italy, impulsively marries Gino Carella — a handsome, passionate, and socially inferior Italian — sending shockwaves of horror through her prim, provincial English family. What follows is a darkly comic yet deeply tragic tug-of-war between two incompatible cultures, as the Herritons dispatch a rescue party to Italy in a bid to reclaim their dignity, only to find themselves undone by their own moral rigidity and repressed desires. Forster's prose is a masterclass in irony, wielding his signature wit to dissect the hypocrisy buried beneath the surface of Edwardian respectability. Where Angels Fear to Tread stands as a sharp-edged meditation on class, national identity, and the violence done in the name of propriety — themes that would resonate throughout his celebrated career, from A Room with a View to A Passage to India. Written with luminous precision and an unerring eye for human contradiction, this novel leaves the reader asking a quietly devastating question: who, in the end, is truly the civilised one?
Author: E. M. Forster
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the golden hills of Tuscany, a seemingly impulsive decision ignites a collision of worlds that neither England nor Italy can contain. E. M. Forster's debut novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread, chronicles the scandal that erupts when the young widow Lilia Herriton, on a trip to Italy, impulsively marries Gino Carella — a handsome, passionate, and socially inferior Italian — sending shockwaves of horror through her prim, provincial English family. What follows is a darkly comic yet deeply tragic tug-of-war between two incompatible cultures, as the Herritons dispatch a rescue party to Italy in a bid to reclaim their dignity, only to find themselves undone by their own moral rigidity and repressed desires. Forster's prose is a masterclass in irony, wielding his signature wit to dissect the hypocrisy buried beneath the surface of Edwardian respectability. Where Angels Fear to Tread stands as a sharp-edged meditation on class, national identity, and the violence done in the name of propriety — themes that would resonate throughout his celebrated career, from A Room with a View to A Passage to India. Written with luminous precision and an unerring eye for human contradiction, this novel leaves the reader asking a quietly devastating question: who, in the end, is truly the civilised one?