ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Edward Morgan Forster was born in London in 1879. He wrote six novels, four of which appeared before the First World War: Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), The Longest Journey (1907), A Room with a View (1908), and Howard’s End (1910).

Detailed explanation-2: -Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) is E.M. Forster’s first novel. With its action split between England and Italy, the novel raises questions about national character the possibility of personal connection across social differences that would occupy Forster throughout his career.

Detailed explanation-3: -Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) is a novel by E. M. Forster. The title comes from a line in Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Criticism: “For fools rush in where angels fear to tread". The BBC adapted the novel for television in 1966 as a Play of the Month.

Detailed explanation-4: -If you say that someone rushes in where angels fear to tread, you are criticizing them gently because they get themselves into dangerous or difficult situations without thinking carefully enough about what they are doing.