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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 A tale of passion, bravery and defiance, this intensely personal novel was completed in 1914 but remained unpublished until after Forster's death in 1970.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 tole of one man's erotic and political self-discovery.
One of a Kind
I read A Room With a View and hated it thus I was more than reluctant to give a go to another novel of his; boy! I'm so glad I did not give up on this author.
Maurice is a beautiful, sad, optimistic, realistic, heartbreaking story.
I was blown away by the way he mingled Love with class struggle, conventions, so-called normality, religion.
I did not expect such a happy end as it was considered a crime to be attracted to a person with whom one shared the same gender. I loved this optimism despite everything being against them.
His powerful and beautiful prose made me want to take each sentence completely in, absorb them before moving to the other. I reread several passages, sentences more than twice.