Maurice
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-19702005
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Maurice Hall is a young man who grows up confident in his privileged status and well aware of his role in society. Modest and generally conformist, he nevertheless finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Through Clive, whom he encounters at Cambridge, and through Alec, the gamekeeper on Clive's country estate, Maurice gradually experiences a profound emotional and sexual awakening. A tale of passion, bravery and defiance, this intensely personal novel was completed in 1914 but remained unpublished until after Forster's death in 1970. Compellingly honest and beautifully written, it offers a powerful condemnation of the repressive attitudes of British society, and is at once a moving love story and an intimate tale of one man's erotic and political self-discovery.
Main title:
Maurice / E.M. Forster ; edited by P.N. Furbank ; with introduction and notes by David Leavitt.
Author:
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970, authorFurbank, P. N. (Philip Nicholas), 1920-2014, editorLeavitt, David, 1961-, writer of supplementary textual content
Work:
Imprint:
London Penguin Books, 2005.©2005
Collation:
xl, 232 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Originally published: London: Edward Arnold, 1971. First published in Penguin Classics in 2000 with a different introduction.
ISBN:
9780141441139 (paperback)0141441135 (paperback)
Dewey class:
823.912
Language:
English
BRN:
133133