Where Angels Fear to Tread (Mint Editions (Reading With Pride))

Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) is a novel by English author E.M.Forster. The work was Forster’s first novel, and its success helped launch his lengthy and critically acclaimed career as a writer of literary fiction.Where Angels Fear to Tread-the title is drawn from Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Criticism (1711)-is a moving meditation on class, gender, social convention, and the grieving process. Following the death of her husband, a widow named Lilia Herriton travels to Tuscany with her friend Caroline Abbott.In Italy, Lilia falls in love with a young Italian named Gino, with whom she decides to remain.This prompts a fierce backlash among members of her deceased husband’s family, who privilege their honor and name over Lilia’s happiness.Although they send Philip, her brother-in-law, to Italy in order to retrieve her, Lilia has already married Gino, and is pregnant with their child.When she dies in childbirth, however, a fight ensues over the care of the boy, whom the Herritons want t