Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Camb ridge undergraduate life\, this story by a master novelist introduces us t o Maurice Hall when he is fourteen. We follow him through public school an d Cambridge\, and into his father's firm. In a highly structured society\, Maurice is a conventional young man in almost every way―except tha t he is homosexual.
\nWritten during 1913 and 1914\, immediately aft er \;Howards End\, and not published until 1971\, \;M aurice \;was ahead of its time in its theme and in its affirmatio n that love between men can be happy. "Happiness\," Forster wrote\, "is it s keynote.&hellip\;In \;Maurice \;I tried to create a cha racter who was completely unlike myself or what I supposed myself to be: s omeone handsome\, healthy\, bodily attractive\, mentally torpid\, not a ba d businessman and rather a snob. Into this mixture I dropped an ingredient that puzzles him\, wakes him up\, torments him and finally saves him." (F rom the publisher)
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