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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 Italian! -- are matters requiring immediate correction by Philip Herriton, his dour sister Harriet, and their well-meaning friend Miss Abbott.
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"Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand! Look at this letter! The man who wrote it will marry her, or murder her, or do for her somehow. He's a bounder, but he's not an English bounder. He's mysterious and terrible. He's got a country behind him that's upset people from the beginning of the world."
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 Italian! -- are matters requiring immediate correction by Philip Herriton, his dour sister Harriet, and their well-meaning friend Miss Abbott.
In his first novel, E. M. Forster anticipated the themes of cultural collision and the sterility of the English middle class that he would develop in A Room with a View and A Passage to India. Where Angels Fear to Tread is an accomplished, harrowing, and malevolently funny book, in which familiar notions of vice and virtue collapse underfoot and the best intentions go mortally awry.
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Condition: Bueno. : En esta sofisticada comedia de E. M. Forster, un grupo de ingleses de buena cuna se ve envuelto en una situación que despierta en cada uno de ellos reacciones violentas e inesperadas. El evento que los desencadena es el matrimonio de uno de ellos con un joven italiano vivaz y llamativo, varios años menor que ella. Cuando ella muere en el parto, sus familiares y amigos sienten que es su deber, por una variedad de razones, rescatar a su bebé del dudoso entorno de su padre. Las emociones y los dilemas en los que se ven envueltos se observan con simpatía e ingenio; y por sus cualidades de carácter y conversación, Where Angels Fear To Tread se considera uno de los libros más logrados de Forster. EAN: 9780140013443 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: Where Angels Fear to Tread Autor: E. M. Forster Editorial: Penguin Classics Idioma: en Páginas: 176 Formato: tapa blanda. Seller Inventory # Happ-2026-05-12-e9ab9859
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