Where Angels Fear To Tread

Let her go to Italy he cried. Let her meddle with what she doesntunderstand Look at this letter The man who wrote it will marry her or murderher or do for her s... » 

Let her go to Italy he cried. Let her meddle with what she doesntunderstand Look at this letter The man who wrote it will marry her or murderher or do for her somehow. Hes a bounder but hes not an English bounder.Hes mysterious and terrible. Hes got a country behind him thats upset peoplefrom the beginning of the world.When a young English widow takes off on the grand tour and along the waymarries a penniless Italian her inlaws are not amused. That the marriageshould fail and poor Lilia die tragically are only to be expected. But thatLilia should have had a baby and that the baby should be raised as anItalian are matters requiring immediate correction by Philip Herriton hisdour sister Harriet and their wellmeaning friend Miss Abbott.In his first novel E. M. Forster anticipated the themes of cultural collisionand the sterility of the English middle class that he would develop in A Roomwith a View and A Passage to India. Where Angels Fear to Tread is anaccomplished harrowing and malevolently funny book in which familiar notionsof vice and virtue collapse underfoot and the best intentions go mortally awry. «