description: E. M. Forster's 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 dentist's 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 catastrophe-but he arrives too late.When tragedy strikes, the Herriton family decides to bring Lilia's infant son to England to be brought up properly-but not everyone is satisfied with the situation.
language: English
title: Where Angels Fear to Tread
titlecomplete: Where Angels Fear to Tread
characters: Caroline Abbott, Philip Herriton, Gino Carella, Mrs. Theobold, Lilia Herriton, Mrs. Herriton, Irma Herriton, Harriet Purcell
genres: 20th Century, Historical Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classic Literature, Italy, Classics, British Literature, Romance, Fiction
ratings_count: 15715
publisher: Chivers Audio Books