EM Forster's Where Angels Fear to Tread is amongst the greatest twentieth-century literary explorations of vice virtue & the nature of prejudice edited with notes by Oliver Stallybrass & 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 & 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 & Caroline feel compelled to return once more to Italy where they are forced to examine their own lives This edition reproduces the Abinger text & also
Includes:: further reading notes a chronology an introduction by Ruth Padel discussing division & culture clash in the novel & an appendix detailing an exchange about the novel between Forster & the poet RC Trevelyan E M Forster (1879-1970) was a noted English author & critic & 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 & dealt with the clash between two families one interested in art & literature the other only in business Maurice was revised several times during his life & 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