One of Time magazine’s 100 best English language novels published since 1923,one of the Modern Library’s 100 great works of twentieth-century English literature, and thewinner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize “By the time the great Edwardian novelist, in this last and best of his novels published in his lifetime, addressed himself to the British presence in India, his moral sense was more fully equipped than ever. This award-winning novel about a conflict between a British woman and an Indian man amid the stirrings of rebellion against empire is “a revelation” (The New York Times). “A whole and mature work dominated by a fresh and commanding intelligence.” -Lionel Trilling, leading literary critic and essayist Forster went on to receive great acclaim for novels such as A Room with a View, Howard’s End, and A Passage to India. It has been adapted for radio and the opera, and as a 1991 film starring Helen Mirren, Helena Bonham Carter, and Judy Davis. Originally published in 1905, Where Angels Fear to Tread was E. M. But as cultures clash in this tragicomedy of manners, their mission takes an unexpected turn or two . . .
Philip Herriton, his sister Harriet, and their friend Caroline are determined not to let the child grow up in such uncivilized surroundings. After Lilia gives birth to a son, her in-laws once again intercede. Her late husband’s family is not pleased, and they try to bring Lilia home-but fail. Leaving dreary England behind, thirty-three-year-old widow Lilia Herriton travels to exotic Italy where she is soon engaged to a handsome, younger Italian man. Summary An impulsive English widow’s trip to Italy stirs up trouble for her uptight in-laws in this classic novel by the author of A Passage to India.
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