Collected Stories 1911-1937 (Edith Wharton)

800 pages of short stories. Mixture of WWI era, NY “society,” ghosts, European. I actually enjoyed these quite a bit. Author was from NY money and seems to be writing about the many and varied things she’d seen.

Where Angels Fear to Tread (E.M. Forster, 1905)

Lilia travels to Italy and marries penniless Gino; dies in childbirth within a year.  Her brother (Philip) and sister (annoying Henrietta) and Ms. Caroline Abbott go to retrieve the child so it can have a proper English upbringing.  Seems to lead to a Philip-Caroline romance but she goes for Gino, without plans to follow through.  Henrietta persists in child retrieval.  I liked the book well enough.