"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."
"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.
夜阿凉
人民文学出版社2021版
阿拉雷
上海译文出版社2016版
0 有用 Sophie 2011-05-18 18:49:17
Forster's first novel. A highly readable one.
0 有用 小巫WeeWitch 2009-09-04 19:58:14
Forster的处女作，有一股青春的冲力在里边，酣畅淋漓。
0 有用 啁啾啾 2022-10-21 22:39:08 浙江
为了搓磨自己的英语，也为了尝尝原作的风格，耐着性子读下来了英文版，却也因为不耐没有将其中所有典故和象征一一查过，造成了信息上的大量遗失。最终这是一个平淡又不平凡的故事，人情家长里短与亲密关系书写间透露出英意文化间的冲突与磨合，也探讨了教养与激情的话题。教养到偏执惹人厌恶，如Mrs. Herriton和Harriet，纯有激情的直肠子虽惹人喜爱，却缺乏思考的能力，只停留在孩童的阶段，如Gino和Li... 为了搓磨自己的英语，也为了尝尝原作的风格，耐着性子读下来了英文版，却也因为不耐没有将其中所有典故和象征一一查过，造成了信息上的大量遗失。最终这是一个平淡又不平凡的故事，人情家长里短与亲密关系书写间透露出英意文化间的冲突与磨合，也探讨了教养与激情的话题。教养到偏执惹人厌恶，如Mrs. Herriton和Harriet，纯有激情的直肠子虽惹人喜爱，却缺乏思考的能力，只停留在孩童的阶段，如Gino和Lilia一般。而Philip和Caroline正是两极之间摸索着寻找平衡的人，反叛绅士与圣母小姐。二者与Gino间的相处着实也让我感动。但我总归还是更喜欢宏大叙事下小人物的故事，这个故事对我来说似乎缺乏了一些历史的印记（或许这就是我错过的那些典故与象征？） (展开)
0 有用 啁啾啾 2022-10-21 22:39:08 浙江
为了搓磨自己的英语，也为了尝尝原作的风格，耐着性子读下来了英文版，却也因为不耐没有将其中所有典故和象征一一查过，造成了信息上的大量遗失。最终这是一个平淡又不平凡的故事，人情家长里短与亲密关系书写间透露出英意文化间的冲突与磨合，也探讨了教养与激情的话题。教养到偏执惹人厌恶，如Mrs. Herriton和Harriet，纯有激情的直肠子虽惹人喜爱，却缺乏思考的能力，只停留在孩童的阶段，如Gino和Li... 为了搓磨自己的英语，也为了尝尝原作的风格，耐着性子读下来了英文版，却也因为不耐没有将其中所有典故和象征一一查过，造成了信息上的大量遗失。最终这是一个平淡又不平凡的故事，人情家长里短与亲密关系书写间透露出英意文化间的冲突与磨合，也探讨了教养与激情的话题。教养到偏执惹人厌恶，如Mrs. Herriton和Harriet，纯有激情的直肠子虽惹人喜爱，却缺乏思考的能力，只停留在孩童的阶段，如Gino和Lilia一般。而Philip和Caroline正是两极之间摸索着寻找平衡的人，反叛绅士与圣母小姐。二者与Gino间的相处着实也让我感动。但我总归还是更喜欢宏大叙事下小人物的故事，这个故事对我来说似乎缺乏了一些历史的印记（或许这就是我错过的那些典故与象征？） (展开)
0 有用 Sophie 2011-05-18 18:49:17
Forster's first novel. A highly readable one.
0 有用 小巫WeeWitch 2009-09-04 19:58:14
Forster的处女作，有一股青春的冲力在里边，酣畅淋漓。