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Présentation de l'éditeur
Mr. Forster is a storyteller who can scoff at life and yet enjoy it to the full. Here is a delightful story of England and Italy. An upper-class English woman falls in love with an Italian peasant and marries him, in spite of the efforts of her family to prevent it. Philip, that iron-principled Englishman; Gino, with his outrageously beautiful hair and skin and rippling voice; and old Mrs. Herriton, who is the embodiment of self-righteous selfishness – are all characters to be remembered with the background of olive-clad Italian hills and blue skies.
“A story very much out of the ordinary; charming, and admirably developed.” -The New York Times
“Some of Mr. Forester’s opinions of men and things are very healthily irritating, and I have been glad to find myself resenting or dissenting from many of them. He has wit and humor, and a good gift of irony; his characters are living and human, with an ingrained flesh and blood humanity; he writes imaginatively, with spiritual insight, and an underlying sense of the beauty, and sordidness, and pathos of mortal life….It is a very striking and original piece of work….Mr. Forster has not only fulfilled the highest expectations of his readers, he has convinced them that he has not yet touched the limit of his powers, and that they may confidently expect still better things of him.” -The Bookman
“Mr. Forster has succeeded, with a cleverness that is almost uncanny, in illustrating the tragic possibilities that reside in insignificant and unimportant characters when they seek to emancipate themselves from the bondage of convention, or to control those who are dominated by a wholly different set of traditions. Let us hope that so original and searching a talent may yet give us a story in which the fallibility of goodness and callousness of respectability are less uncompromisingly insisted upon.” -The Spectator
Présentation de l'éditeur
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.
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