Where Angels Fear to Tread

A young Englishman travels to Tuscany to rescue his late brother's wife from what appears to be an unsuitable romance with an Italian of little fortune. Forester weaves an exciting and eventful tale that intriguingly contrasts English and Italian lives and sensibilities. The novel reveals the author's deep fascination with all of human experience -- sexual, moral, spiritual, imaginative, material. Acutely observant of the ways of the English middle class, he is as critical here of its snobbishness, greed and cultural insensitivity as he is respectful of its decency and kindness, common sense and good will.