Where Angels Fear to Tread
内容简介
A wonderful story of questioning, disillusionment, and conversion, Where Angels Fear to Tread tells the story of a prim English family’s encounter with the foreign land of Italy. When attractive, impulsive English widow Lilia marries Gino, a dashing and highly unsuitable Italian twelve years her junior, her snobbish former in-laws make no attempts to hide their disapproval. But their expedition to face the uncouth foreigner takes an unexpected turn when they return to Italy under tragic circumstances intending to rescue Lilia and Gino’s baby.
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作者简介
Edward Morgan Forster OM CH (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. Many of his novels examined class difference and hypocrisy, including A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). The last brought him his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 different years.
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读书文摘
菲利普的目光盯着埃罗勒钟楼，却看到了恩底弥翁的神话。这个女人直到最后都是一位女神。对她来说，任何爱情都不可能是堕落：她站在所有堕落之外。这件事，她觉得这么污浊，他觉得这么悲哀，却仍然是至纯至美的。他现在升华到了这样一个高度，可以不带遗憾地告诉她，他也是她的崇拜者。可是告诉她有什么用呢？所有美妙的事情已经发生过了。
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