"Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand! Look at this letter! The man who wrote it will marry her, or murder her, or do for her somehow. He's a bounder, but he's not an English bounder. He's mysterious and terrible. He's got a country behind him that's upset people from the beginning of the world."
When a young English widow takes off on the grand tour and along the way marries a penniless Italian, her in-laws are not amused. That the marriage should fail and poor Lilia die tragically are only to be expected. But that Lilia should have had a baby -- and that the baby should be raised as an Italian! -- are matters requiring immediate correction by Philip Herriton, his dour sister Harriet, and their well-meaning friend Miss Abbott.
In his first novel, E. M. Forster anticipated the themes of cultural collision and the sterility of the English middle class that he would develop in A Room with a View and A Passage to India. 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.
發表於2025-03-27
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正如前言所述,這本小說故事完整,各用瞭四個章節敘述瞭兩起死亡,直至最後,那座冰山的一角纔正式浮齣水麵,多少有些讓人吃驚。但迴過頭想想,當阿博特小姐袒露自己對吉諾的愛慕時,她的原因幾乎近似於開頭的莉莉婭,帶著暮色的夕陽、吉諾的體格,當然還有一個原因,私...
評分正如前言所述,這本小說故事完整,各用瞭四個章節敘述瞭兩起死亡,直至最後,那座冰山的一角纔正式浮齣水麵,多少有些讓人吃驚。但迴過頭想想,當阿博特小姐袒露自己對吉諾的愛慕時,她的原因幾乎近似於開頭的莉莉婭,帶著暮色的夕陽、吉諾的體格,當然還有一個原因,私...
評分正如前言所述,這本小說故事完整,各用瞭四個章節敘述瞭兩起死亡,直至最後,那座冰山的一角纔正式浮齣水麵,多少有些讓人吃驚。但迴過頭想想,當阿博特小姐袒露自己對吉諾的愛慕時,她的原因幾乎近似於開頭的莉莉婭,帶著暮色的夕陽、吉諾的體格,當然還有一個原因,私...
評分書不長,很吸引人,兩天就看完瞭。英國的拘謹和刻闆,意大利的美與生機,兩種文化形成瞭鮮明的對比。 假如一開始是阿博特小姐嫁給吉諾,也許就不會有悲劇的發生瞭,結局會很好多,她清楚得看透吉諾的本來麵目——不過是一個有著男人力氣與激情的小男孩而已。可惜世界上沒有如果...
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Where Angels Fear to Tread (Penguin Modern Classics) 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載