A tale of passion, bravery and defiance, this intensely personal novel was completed in 1914 but remained unpublished until after Forster's death in 1970. 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. Modest and generally conformist, he nevertheless finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Maurice Hall is a young man who grows up confident in his privileged status and well aware of his role in society. Furbank with an introduction by David Leavitt in Penguin Classics. An astonishingly frank and deeply autobiographical account of homosexual relationships in an era when love between men was not only stigmatised, but also illegal, E.M.
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