Where Angels Fear to Tread
by:
E.M. Forster (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141199252 (0141199253)
Publish date: 2012
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 161
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Classic Literature,
20th Century,
English Literature
For the dead, who seem to take away so much, really take with them nothing that is ours. The passion they have aroused lives after them, easy to transmute or to transfer, but well-nigh impossible to destroy. I love Forster's writing. So, much so that to celebrate it I got myself a whole new set of ...
One of EM Forster's shorter novels and it's entertaining enough. This well-written novel is about a young widow living with her husband's family in middle-class England who takes herself off to Italy where she meets and weds a young Italian. She dies shortly after during childbirth. The novel deals ...
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 Ita...
At first I didn't like this book much. In my opinion it was often much too clichéd. I even wanted to quit read it and only continued because it is on the 1001 books list and I thought there had to be a reason for it. The second part of the book was a lot better and I actually enjoyed reading it. I a...
Re-Read details:English prejudices clash with Italian passions when a young widow is sent abroad to avoid a man's clutches. Broadcast on:BBC Radio 7, 11:00am Monday 23rd November 2009
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