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Maurice Paperback - 2005

by E. M. Forster

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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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This seller has earned a 3.93 of 5 Stars rating from internet customers.
3.93 / 5 (81 total reviews)

Readers praised Forster’s polished prose and the intimate psychological portrait of Maurice, valuing the novel’s historical significance and commitment to depicting same-sex love. Many found the first third slow and noted a tonal shift midway, yet the closing sections were widely seen as emotionally resonant, with Maurice’s subtle maturation drawing admiration. Views on the ending varied—some read it as decisively hopeful, others as ambiguous—and a few wished for deeper treatment of Alec. Overall, the book was appreciated more for its insight, character work, and context than for plot momentum.

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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 into his father's firm. In a highly structured society, Maurice is a conventional young man in almost every way--except that he 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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Once a term the whole school went for a walk-that is to say the three masters took part as well as all the boys.

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  • Title Maurice
  • Author E. M. Forster
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
  • Publication date 2005-12-17
  • ISBN 9780393310320 / 0393310329
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.7 in (20.57 x 13.72 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Sex & Gender: Gay
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Gay men, England
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 92041161
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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