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Original Title:	Maurice
ISBN:	0393310329 (ISBN13: 9780393310320)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Maurice Hall, Alec Scudder, Clive Durham, Mr Borenius, Archie London, Mr Lasker Jones, Mrs Durham, Simcox, Mrs Wetherall, Miss Tonks, Mr Fetherstonhaugh, Mr Ayres, Ada Hall, Kitty Hall, Aunt Ida, Anne Woods, Risley, Ben Ducie, Fred Scudder, Mrs Ducie, Mr Scudder, Mrs Scudder, Dr Barry
Setting:	London, England Southampton, England,1912 Cambridge University, England,1909 …more British Museum, London, England,1912 …less

Maurice

E.M. Forster

Paperback | Pages: 256 pages

Rating: 4.03 | 25750 Users | 1553 Reviews

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Maurice is heartbroken over unrequited love, which opened his heart and mind to his own sexual identity. In order to be true to himself, he goes against the grain of society’s often unspoken rules of class, wealth, and politics.
Forster understood that his homage to same-sex love, if published when he completed it in 1914, would probably end his career. Thus, Maurice languished in a drawer for fifty-seven years, the author requesting it be published only after his death (along with his stories about homosexuality later collected in The Life to Come).
Since its release in 1971, Maurice has been widely read and praised. It has been, and continues to be, adapted for major stage productions, including the 1987 Oscar-nominated film adaptation starring Hugh Grant and James Wilby.

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Title	:	Maurice
Author	:	E.M. Forster
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	December 17th 2005 by W. W. Norton Company (first published 1971)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. LGBT. Romance. GLBT. Queer. Gay

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One of my favourite novels, and incidentally the one I wrote my MA thesis on. Maurice is, for all intents and purposes, a dime-a-dozen love story and a period piece. The only twist is that this love story concerns two men, which was unheard of in the time that it was written (1913). Forster wrote it mainly as a therapeutical effort, having grown tired of not being able to write about the kind of love that interested him the most, as a homosexual male. Published 60 years after it was written,

I think youre beautiful, the only beautiful person Ive ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you. this book sent me all the way through it and I was genuinely moved by the tenderness.. the yearning... the way e.m forster wrote a happy ending for two men because he thought it was time gay men got to be happy in fiction... the explorations of class and freedom and longing... Maurice's journey to self-discovery and



After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?

When I first started reading this book, I kept thinking, "I've read this before...when?" but a quarter of the way through this novel I realized I was thinking about Forster's "A Room With A View", a book I read years ago and liked very much. The two books are almost mirror images of each other and have many similarities.1-Both books mostly take place in the early 1900s in England. (And, they may very well have been written at about the same time. "Room" was published in 1908 while "Maurice" was

Oh, the mellifluous, soothing voice of Forster! I dont know what it is, but something just kicks into place in my innermost recesses when I read his best novels. Stephen King has said that its the writers we read when we are young who impact us the most, perhaps in ways we dont always realize. That may be why its more than just a reading experience to me when I read Forster; I feel that I meet not only my younger self but my true self when I read him. Maurice is the novel Forster wrote some 55

E.M. Forster ( Howards End , A Room With A View ) finished this gay-themed novel in 1914, and though he showed it to some close friends, he didn't publish it in his lifetime. It eventually came out after his death, in the early 1970s.What a gift to have a novel about same sex love written a century ago by one of the premier 20th century British authors!When Forster penned Maurice, homosexuality was so taboo that there was no name for it. For a man to be with another man was a criminal offense.