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Novels (Where Angels Fear to Tread / A Room with a View / Howards End / A Passage to India)

by E. M. Forster

Cover of Novels (Where Angels Fear to Tread / A Room with a View / Howards End / A Passage to India)

Where angels fear to tread: A young Englishman journeys to Tuscany to rescue his late brother's wife from what appears to be an unsuitable romance with an Italian of little fortune. Room with a view: A charming young English woman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted to this man, George Emerson--who is entirely unsuitable and whose father just may be a Socialist--Lucy is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires. Back in England she is courted by a more acceptable, if stifling, suitor, and soon realizes she must make a startling decision that will decide the course of her future: she is forced to choose between convention and passion.

Middle classFictionCulture conflictBritishYoung womenSocial life and customsManners and customs