Where Angels Fear to Tread (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

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 Lilias 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 Forsters subsequent novels Where Angels Fear to Tread explores class consciousness and bourgeois obsession with appearances. This Warbler Classics edition includes a detailed biographical timeline.