283 pages
English language
Published Dec. 15, 1943 by Alfred A. Knopf.
283 pages
English language
Published Dec. 15, 1943 by Alfred A. Knopf.
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) follows two women to Italy: the widowed Lilia Herriton and her traveling companion Caroline Abbott. Lilia falls passionately in love with the country, and also with a young Italian man. Her decision to remain in Italy enrages her dead husband's family, who send her brother-in-law to fetch her back.