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Maurice

by E M Forster

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ISBN13: 9780393310320
ISBN10: 0393310329
Condition: Standard
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Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist introduces us to Maurice Hall when he is fourteen. We follow him through public school and Cambridge, and on into his father's firm, Hill and Hall, Stock Brokers. In a highly structured society, Maurice is a conventional young man in almost every way, "stepping into the niche that England had prepared for him": except that his is homosexual.

Written during 1913 and 1914, immediately after Howards End, and not published until 1971, Maurice was ahead of its time in its theme and in its affirmation that lvoe between men can be happy. "Happiness," Forster wrote, "is its keynote. . . . In Maurice I tried to create a character who was completely unlike myself or what I supposed myself to be: someone handsome, healthy, bodily attractive, mentally torpid, not a bad businessman and rather a snob. Into this mixture I dropped an ingredient that puzzles him, wakes him up, torments him and finally saves him."

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Written during 1913 and 1914, Maurice deals with the then unmentionable subject of homosexuality. More unusual, it concerns a relationship that ends happily.
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staggo, November 16, 2007 (view all comments by staggo)
Published posthumously, this is an exquisitely written novel about one man's acceptance of his homosexuality in a society and time that harshly proscribed it. Set in 1913 England among the privileged class, a broken relationship with another Oxford student leads Maurice through an inner maze of fear, doubt, and realization. A sudden, chance liaison with a young servant stunningly opens the door to acceptance and fulfillment. As a young gay man in 1972, Maurice had a profound effect upon my sense of identity and the potential of truth and love.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780393310320
Author:
Forster, Edward Morgan
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Author:
Forster, E. M.
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
Novels and novellas
Subject:
Literature
Subject:
British and irish fiction (fictional works by
Subject:
Gay men
Subject:
Gay men -- England -- Fiction.
Subject:
England Fiction.
Subject:
Gay men, Fiction
Copyright:
1971
Series Volume:
MA 5-C
Publication Date:
January 1971
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
8.22x5.55x.68 in. .58 lbs.
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