Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) (edit title/settings)

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• Mrs. Herriton: The matriarch of the Herriton family.
• Philip Herriton: Son of Mrs. Herriton.
• Lilia Theobald Herriton: Widow of Charles Herriton and sister-in-law to Phillip Herriton.
• Gino Carella: A young Italian man.
• Harriet Herriton: Daughter of Mrs. Herriton.
• Irma Herriton: Lilia's daughter by Charles Herriton.
• Caroline Abbott: A single lady who is a friend with the Herriton family.
• Mr. Kingcroft: A romantic interest of Lilia Herriton

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• “At first he was glad, for here, he thought, was death at last. But it was only a new torture; perhaps Gino inherited the skill of his ancestors—and childlike ruffians who flung each other from the towers.”

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• For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and—by some sad, strange irony—it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.

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• No one realized that more than personalities were engaged; that the struggle was national; that generations of ancestors, good, bad, or indifferent, forbad the Latin man to be chivalrous to the northern woman, the northern woman to forgive the Latin man. All this might have been foreseen: Mrs. Herriton foresaw it from the first.

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• cynically—we may be better in new clean words, which have never been tainted by our pettiness or vice.

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• 'Petty unselfishness,' she repeated. 'I had got an idea that every one here spent their lives in making little sacrifices for objects they didn't care for, to please people they didn't love; that they never learnt to be sincere—and, what's as bad, never learnt how to enjoy themselves. That's what I thought—what I thought at Monteriano.'

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• The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say 'yesterday I was happy, today I am not.'

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• Italy is such a delightful place to live in if you happen to be a man. There one may enjoy that exquisite luxury of Socialism—that true Socialism which is based not on equality of income or character, but on the equality of manners.

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• Then you were still infatuated with Italy. It may be full of beautiful pictures and churches, but we cannot judge a country by anything but its men.'

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• This admirable change in Philip proceeds from nothing admirable, and may therefore provoke the gibes of the cynical. But angels and other practical people will accept it reverently, and write it down as good.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Monteriano, Italy
• Sawston, England
• Siena
• Santa Deodata
• Florence
• Bologna
• London
• Stella D'italia

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Professor Unrat, and followed by Nostromo.

Preceded by Corelli's Mandolin, and followed by A Death in the Family.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. E. M. Forster (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

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• Dewey: 823.912

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › British › Classics › Forster, E.M.
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction

Movie Connections edit see section history

• Where Angels Fear To Tread (IMDb): 1991