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Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) is a novel by E. M. Forster. The title comes from a line in Alexander Pope's poem An Essay on Criticism: "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread". The BBC adapted the novel for television in 1966 as a Play of the Month.
Where Angels Fear to Tread is a 1991 British drama film directed by Charles Sturridge and starring Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Rupert Graves, Giovanni Guidelli, Barbara Jefford, and Helen Mirren. [2]
Where Angels Fear to Tread: Directed by Charles Sturridge. With Rupert Graves, Helen Mirren, Helena Bonham Carter, Barbara Jefford. After a rich Edwardian widow impulsively marries a handsome but poor Tuscan dentist and dies in childbirth, her English in-laws try to gain custody of the baby.
E.M. Forster. 3.60. 16,717 ratings1,367 reviews. 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.
‘Fools rush in where angels fear to tread’ is a phrase which has the ring of an anonymous proverb handed down over the centuries, a pithy apercu whose author and true origins are both lost in the mists of history.
Where Angels Fear to Tread is a novel by E.M. Forster. It was published in 1905. The novel, Forster's first, describes events in the life of Lilia, a young English widow who falls in love with an Italian man to the disapproval of her family.
When a rich widow, Lilia (Helen Mirren), visits Tuscany with her friend Caroline (Helena Bonham Carter), she falls in love with Gino (Giovanni Guidelli), a poor man.
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Dec 1, 2001 · "Where Angels Fear to Tread" by E. M. Forster is a novel written in the early 20th century. The book explores themes of culture clash and personal relationships through the story of Lilia Herriton, a young widow who embarks on a journey to Italy, leaving behind her strict English upbringing and family expectations.
After a rich Edwardian widow impulsively marries a handsome but poor Tuscan dentist and dies in childbirth, her English in-laws try to gain custody of the baby. Around 1906, the widow Lilia Herriton (Dame Helen Mirren) meets a young man when she visits Italy and marries him.
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.
