Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M.Forster

Where Angels Fear to Tread is a comedy of manners that uses the elements of farce to demonstrate how a comic clash of cultural sensibilities can quickly turn to tragedy. Forster's acclaimed first novel displays his finely honed talent for using a tragi-comic incident to comment on human existence. In his first book, he shows a subtlety and lightness of touch, which he lost in his more "philosophical"  Howard's End and A Passage to India.