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Where Angels Fear to Tread

By: E. M. Forster
Narrated by: Edward Petherbridge
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Summary
 When attractive, impulsive, English widow Lilia takes a holiday in Italy, she causes a scandal by marrying Gino, a dashing and highly unsuitable Italian twelve years her junior. Her prim, snobbish in-laws make no attempt to hide their disapproval, and when Lilia's decision eventually brings disaster, her English relatives embark on an expedition to face the uncouth foreigner. But when they are confronted by the beauty of Italy and the charm and vitality of the disreputable Gino, they are forced to examine their own narrow lives. Their reactions are emotional, violent, and unexpected.(P)2009 AudioGO Classics Genre Fiction Linguistics Literary Fiction Social Sciences Italy Fiction

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“As enveloping as any of the other Forster books.”

(New York Times)

“Startlingly original…At once fantastic and inevitable.”

(Guardian (London))
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Forster's first published novel is not as good as his later works. But the principal culprit is the narrator whose desire to vary the volume makes too many passages too hard to hear.

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