Where Angels Fear to Tread, E. M. Forster
Where Angels Fear to Tread, E. M. Forster
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Where Angels Fear to Tread

Author: E. M. Forster

Narrator: Frederick Davidson

Unabridged: 4 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/13/2012

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

E. M. Forsters first novel explores the comic and tragic effects of culture clash between insular, provincial British personalities and sensual Italian culture and atmosphere. Lilia Herriton, an impulsive thirty-three-year-old widow from London, travels to Tuscany, where she falls in love with both Italy and the handsome, carefree Gino Carella, a dentists son twelve years her junior. When news reaches the snobbish Herriton family that Lilia intends to marry again, this time to an unsuitable Italian, the domineering Mrs. Herriton sends her son, Philip, to prevent the catastrophebut he arrives too late. When tragedy strikes, the Herriton family decides to bring Lilias infant son to England to be brought up properlybut not everyone is satisfied with the situation.

About E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster (1879–1970) was an English novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy and also attitudes toward gender and homosexuality in early-twentieth-century British society. Among his most notable novels are Howards End, A Room with a View, A Passage to India, The Longest Journey, and Where Angels Fear to Tread.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bionic Jean on March 02, 2025

Written in 1905, this was Forster's first novel. It is a comedy of manners, and does show signs of his great talent. Out of his four best-known novels though, this seems by far the weakest. I personally think it would have worked better as a novella or even a short story; later he did write very goo......more

Goodreads review by Andy on May 05, 2023

Despicable people doing despicable things.......more

Goodreads review by Colin on May 05, 2023

Another friend mentioned this recently. It reminded me that I had read it and that it’s one of my favourite Forster’s novels. If my memory serves me correctly, we studied it at school, or I sought it out after enjoying another of his books at school. Either way, this is a bit if a catch-up rating/re......more

Goodreads review by Paul on June 27, 2014

I only realized half way through that E M Forster was 26 when he wrote this which is his first. If I’d known that I wouldn’t have read it, I have a violent prejudice against novelists under 30. It’s too early to start. In other art forms it’s essential to be under 30 – the Beatles were in their mid-......more

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