Where Angels Fear to Tread

by E. M. Forster, Michael Wilson (Editor)

Overview

Forster's first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread, is also the first of his "Italian novels." The collision of cultures common to many of Forster's works is present here, as is the cross-cultural and cross-social class romantic relationship that mirrors Forster's own life. There is a freshness and bluntness in this first novel that many critics have found particularly appealing.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150407428
Publisher:	Watersgreen House
Publication date:	04/07/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	180
File size:	276 KB

About the Author

Edward Morgan Forster’s most homosexual works are the two published posthumously, his novel Maurice, written in 1913 but not published until 1971, and a collection of short stories titled The Life to Come. Forster’s other works were published as he wrote them. None contained overtly homosexual themes, although what readers would now refer to as a “gay sensibility” is present in all. Forster was a prolific writer in his youth but ceased to write at age forty-five.

Forster never married and was well-known among his friends to be homosexual. However, he remained celibate until the age of thirty-eight when he visited Egypt and had sex with a wounded soldier he met on the beach. He lived a closeted life, but eventually enjoyed a loving relationship with a married policeman named Bob Buckingham. The two met when Forster was fifty-one, Buckingham twenty-eight, and the relationship lasted forty years. Before meeting Buckingham, Forster had much briefer affairs with another policeman and a bus driver.

Date of Birth:

January 1, 1879

Date of Death:

June 7, 1970

Place of Birth:

London

Place of Death:

Coventry, England

Education:

B. A. in classics, King's College, Cambridge, 1900; B. A. in history, 1901; M.A., 1910