《Where Angels Fear to Tread》

by E M Forster(Author),Ruth Padel (Introduction)

Product details

Paperback: 176 pages

Publisher: Penguin Classics; Reissue edition (31 May 2007)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0141441453

ISBN-13: 978-0141441450

Product Dimensions:12.8 x 1.1 x 19.7 cm

Product Description

E.M. Forster'sWhere 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 enjoyedWhere Angels Fear to Tread, you might enjoy Forster'sA Room With a View, also available in Penguin Classics.

Book Description

A classic novel, irresistibly repackaged for Christmas.

--This text refers to theHardcover edition.

From the Inside Flap

"Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand! Look at this letter! The man who wrote it will marry her, or murder her, or do for her somehow. He's a bounder, but he's not an English bounder. He's mysterious and terrible. He's got a country behind him that's upset people from the beginning of the world."

When a young English widow takes off on the grand tour and along the way marries a penniless Italian, her in-laws are not amused. That the marriage should fail and poor Lilia die tragically are only to be expected. But that Lilia should have had a baby -- and that the baby should be raised as an Italian! -- are matters requiring immediate correction by Philip Herriton, his dour sister Harriet, and their well-meaning friend Miss Abbott.

In his first novel, E. M. Forster anticipated the themes of cultural collision and the sterility of the English middle class that he would develop in A Room with a View and A Passage to India. Where Angels Fear to Tread is an accomplished, harrowing, and malevolently funny book, inwhich familiar notions of vice and virtue collapse underfoot and the best intentions go mortally awry. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title

出版时间:2007-05-31;版次:1;出版社:Penguin Classics;ISBN:9780141441450;

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