false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030244m/3677.jpg 3677 51 "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."<br><br>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 &#8211; and that the baby should be raised as an Italian! &#8211; are matters requiring immediate correction by Philip Herriton, his dour sister Harriet, and their well-meaning friend Miss Abbott.<br><br>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 <i>A Room with a View</i> and <i>A Passage to India. Where Angels Fear to Tread</i> is an accomplished, harrowing, and malevolently funny book, in which familiar notions of vice and virtue collapse underfoot and the best intentions go mortally awry. 2153548 1905 Where Angels Fear To Tread total:1273|5:201|4:480|3:484|2:94|1:14| 1273 4579 1891 111 5 6 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Feb 29 12:06:47 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 29 12:09:29 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 4 false false Thu May 15 21:41:37 -0700 2008 Thu May 15 21:43:27 -0700 2008 A Room With a View (in fact several sentences are even repeated verbatim in RWAV!). But it’s a great story in its own right. When an English widow goes to Italy and then, in what could only be a fi...more...]]> 3 4 false false Wed Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 21:40:55 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 11 14:42:24 -0700 2008 "Fools rush in ..."

I guess I'm a fool. I thought E. M. Forster was easy to read, almost too easy sometimes. Delighted with his nearly faultless prose, I read his thin first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), all in one afternoon. Forster tells the story of a young Englis...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 13 10:30:38 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 13 10:31:24 -0700 2007
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I have read Room With a View and Howards End. Both due for a re-read, I think. Unfort...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 31 23:07:09 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 05 00:16:45 -0700 2007 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3677