The impulsive marriage of an English widow to a young Italian sparks a clash of cultures and a tragic struggle over a child.
Books mentioned in Where Angels Fear to Tread (6)
Inferno by Dante Alighieri: “The latter wrote the 'Inferno,' the 'Purgatorio,' the 'Paradiso.' The 'Inferno' is the most beautiful.”
Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri: “The latter wrote the 'Inferno,' the 'Purgatorio,' the 'Paradiso.'”
Paradiso by Dante Alighieri: “The latter wrote the 'Inferno,' the 'Purgatorio,' the 'Paradiso.'”
A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain: “Nor did Mark Twain visit it in the 'Tramp Abroad.'”
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron: “She looked up the place in 'Childe Harold,' but Byron had not been there.”
Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti: “But this is an opera--'Lucia di Lammermoor'--Sir Walter Scott--classical, you know.”
Books that mention Where Angels Fear to Tread (1)
How to Be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis: “He wrote intrepid heroines who put love first (I also have a soft spot for Lilia, the middle-aged English widow in Where Angels Fear to Tread who rushes headlong into marriage with an Italian hunk), while all the time he was living with his finicky, proper mother and putting love very low on his list.”