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Maurice

by E M Forster
Maurice

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ISBN13: 9780393310320
ISBN10: 0393310329
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Maurice is groundbreaking for its earnest and heartfelt depiction of a gay man who gets a happy ending — something that was essentially forbidden and almost unheard of in its time. Written 100 years ago (but only published after his death in 1971), Forster dedicated this book to a happier year: it's a touching glimpse at how far we've come and how far we still need to go.  Recommended By Nicole S, Powells.com

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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 love 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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“The Birds of Paradise is a rare literary bird, a novel that in a short space recreates a man’s lifetime. Using exotic backgrounds, it manages to say something useful about growing up—a process that only children believe takes place mainly in childhood.”

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“Extremely interesting. . . . Mr. Scotts montage is first-class. The book is beautifully composed.”

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"The work of an exceptional artist working close to the peak of his powers." Christopher Lehmann-Haupt,

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Paul Scott is most famous for his much-beloved tetralogy The Raj Quartet, an epic that chronicles the end of the British rule in India with a cast of vividly and memorably drawn characters. Inspired by Scotts own time spent in India during World War II, this powerful novel provides valuable insight into how foreign lands changed the British who worked and fought in them, hated and loved them. A coming of age tale, The Birds of Paradise is the story of a boy and his childhood friendship with the daughter of a British diplomat and the son of the Raja. Scott artfully brings his young narrators voice to life with evocative language and an eye for detail, capturing the pangs of childhood and the bittersweet fog of memory with nostalgic yet immediate prose


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Paul Scott (1920-78) was a British novelist best known for the tetralogy The Raj Quartet, published by the University of Chicago Press. Scott was drafted into the British Army during World War II and was stationed in India, an experience which shaped much of his literary work. The University of Chicago Press has also published his novels The Birds of Paradise, The Chinese Love Pavilion, Six Days in Marapore and Staying On, the latter of which won the Booker Prize for 1977.

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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
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
12/17/2005
Publisher:
W W NORTON & CO
Pages:
256
Height:
.70IN
Width:
5.40IN
Thickness:
.50
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1971
Series Volume:
MA 5-C
UPC Code:
2800393310322
Author:
Paul Scott
Author:
E. M. Forster
Author:
E M Forster
Subject:
Novels and novellas
Subject:
England Fiction.
Subject:
Gay men -- England -- Fiction.
Subject:
Gay men
Subject:
British and irish fiction (fictional works by
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Gay men, Fiction
Subject:
Literature
Subject:
Literature-A to Z

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