Where Angels Fear to Tread

Chaperoned by her young friend Caroline Abbott, free-spirited, recently widowed Lilia Herriton journeys to the Tuscan town of Monteriano where she falls in love with Gino Carella, a dashing villager who is twelve years her junior. The couple marries before Mrs. Herriton, Lilia’s snobbish mother-in-law, and her son Philip can prevent what they view as an unsuitable match. Intervention by Mrs. Herriton and Philip in the events that follow lead to horrific consequences. As in Forster’s subsequent novels, Where Angels Fear to Tread explores class consciousness and bourgeois obsession with appearances. This Warbler Classics edition includes a detailed biographical timeline.

E. M. Forster (1879–1970) was an English writer whose novels A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India are beloved classics of English literature. Before his death in 1970 he was nominated for a Nobel Prize in Literature twenty times in fifteen separate years.

“Swift, witty and satirical, with a fine eye for English manners and English snobbery.” 
—The Guardian

“A whole and mature work dominated by a fresh and commanding intelligence.”
—Lionel Trilling

“The motive of the story…is familiar and ordinary enough, but the setting and treatment of this motive are almost startlingly original.”
—The Manchester Guardian