- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: W. W. Norton (2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0393310329
- ISBN-13: 978-0393310320
- Product Dimensions: 20.9 x 14.1 x 1.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 227 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #521,167 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Once a term the whole school went for a walk - that is to say the three masters took part as well as all the boys. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
Once a term the whole school went for a walk - that is to say the three masters took part as well as all the boys. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing, Amazing, Amazing!!!,
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This review is from: Maurice (Hardcover)
This book blew my mind. It is absolutely amazing!! Can't say it enough. E.M. Forster is the only writer (known) to have written a book about homosexuality in this time (1910's) and it shows the fear, the repression and nonetheless, keeps a positive outlook about it. It's cute, heart-wrenching, romantic, but also very realistic and uber-well-written! I approve of this book, and suggest it to everyone!
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a novel not published for many years,
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This review is from: 20th Century Maurice (Paperback)
MAURICE is a novel of homosexual love, the first one I have ever read, but more than that it is a very direct description, perhaps as honest as could be---without either sensationalism or trivialization---of the inner feelings of a homosexual man. It begins when the main character, Maurice Hall, is a school boy, traces his emotional life through Cambridge and into the world of work, and ends in an upbeat, if rather abrupt fashion. In the confusion of early years, Maurice does not realize his true nature, but loses himself in sports, hi-jinks and studies. He devotes himself to his mother and two sisters. In short, his is the life of a typical English public school boy at the time (pre-WW I) Only at university does he recognize his real nature, though he'd had intimations mostly ignored, and truly falls in love with Clive Durham, a fellow student. Forster traces the ups and downs of this affair, leading the reader through all the ups and downs of homosexual love affairs. Maurice joins a financial investment firm, leading a totally conventional life in Britain's rigid class society, except for his sexual orientation. Eventually events take an unplanned course, Maurice winds up with another man, of a different class and nature. He experiences hitherto unknown problems. The ending, given Forster's rather pessimistic outlook on life, is unexpected.This novel may not be for everybody, but if you attempt it, you will admire the skillful writing of E.M. Forster and you will come away appreciating his honesty. The dialogues sound very alien to an American in the early 21st century---a whole different way of using the English language---but no doubt they add a special flavor to the book, a period piece after all. I would say that a person who does not try to understand all aspects of the human condition has not truly lived, has not truly understood himself/herself. This is to readers who may not see the point of reading a novel about homosexual love. If you can't appreciate it as the great literature it is, perhaps you will think about the courage it took to write such a novel in 1914. Even then, it was not published until 1971, a year after Forster's death. Perhaps you will imagine what it is to become a great writer and still not touch upon a subject so close to your heart.
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Wonderful Insights,
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This review is from: 20th Century Maurice (Paperback)
A fascinating glimpse into the world of "the love that dare not speak its name." The book details the realities of being gay in Edwardian England as well as presenting a beautiful love story. Something to read more for ideas than action, more so than Forster's other works. As someone who grew up in an EXTREMELY liberal household, it was a real eye-opener, putting emotional substance onto my intellectual knowledge about intolerance. I read this sandwiched between twice seeing Tom Stoppard's "The Invention of Love" about A.E. Housman, and found them enormously complementary; each really adding to my understanding of the other.
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