Where Angels Fear To Tread
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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A collision of cultures, class, and catastrophic misunderstanding — E. M. Forster's debut novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread, opens with the seemingly scandalous marriage of Lilia Herriton, a young English widow, to Gino Carella, a handsome but lowly Italian in the sun-drenched Tuscan town of Monteriano. When Lilia dies in childbirth, her priggish English in-laws dispatch a rescue party to reclaim the baby, setting in motion a darkly comic and ultimately devastating clash between Edwardian English propriety and the raw, passionate vitality of Italian life. Forster masterfully dissects the hypocrisies and emotional repressions of the English middle class, contrasting them with an Italy that is earthy, spontaneous, and unapologetically alive. Published in 1905, Where Angels Fear to Tread announced the arrival of one of the twentieth century's most perceptive literary voices, showcasing the precise, ironic prose and deep moral seriousness that would come to define Forster's entire body of work. The novel anticipates the grand themes of A Room with a View and Howards End — the liberation of the self, the tyranny of social convention, and the redemptive — or destructive — power of human passion. Forster never allows his characters the comfort of easy resolution, leaving the reader to sit with the unsettling question of whether truth and beauty can ever truly survive an encounter with the civilised world.
Author: E. M. Forster
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A collision of cultures, class, and catastrophic misunderstanding — E. M. Forster's debut novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread, opens with the seemingly scandalous marriage of Lilia Herriton, a young English widow, to Gino Carella, a handsome but lowly Italian in the sun-drenched Tuscan town of Monteriano. When Lilia dies in childbirth, her priggish English in-laws dispatch a rescue party to reclaim the baby, setting in motion a darkly comic and ultimately devastating clash between Edwardian English propriety and the raw, passionate vitality of Italian life. Forster masterfully dissects the hypocrisies and emotional repressions of the English middle class, contrasting them with an Italy that is earthy, spontaneous, and unapologetically alive. Published in 1905, Where Angels Fear to Tread announced the arrival of one of the twentieth century's most perceptive literary voices, showcasing the precise, ironic prose and deep moral seriousness that would come to define Forster's entire body of work. The novel anticipates the grand themes of A Room with a View and Howards End — the liberation of the self, the tyranny of social convention, and the redemptive — or destructive — power of human passion. Forster never allows his characters the comfort of easy resolution, leaving the reader to sit with the unsettling question of whether truth and beauty can ever truly survive an encounter with the civilised world.