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by E. M. Forster
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.
"As enveloping as any of the other Forster books that have been filmed." —The New York Times
"Swift, witty and satirical, with a fine eye for English manners and English snobbery." —The Guardian
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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.
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