Maurice

This is a new book. Condition: Brand New.

First time in Black Classics for Forster's autobiographical novel of homosexual love.

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 A tale of passion, bravery and defiance, this intensely personal novel was completed in 1914 but remained unpublished until after Forster's death in 1970.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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780141441139
Published: July 2005

Number of pages: 272
Width: 128 mm
Height: 197 mm
Depth: 16 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd