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Maurice (Penguin Classics) by Forster, E.M.; Furbank, P.N. is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Maurice (Penguin Classics) about?

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 A tale of passion, bravery and defiance, this intensely personal novel was completed in 1914 but remained unpublished until after Forster’s death in 1970.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. In his introduction, David Leavitt explores the significance of the novel in relation to Forster’s own life and as a founding work of modern gay literature. This edition reproduces the Abinger text of the novel, and includes new notes, a chronology and further reading.

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Forster, E.M.; Furbank, P.N.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Published
2005
Language
EN
ISBN
9780141441139
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Poetry, Romance
Rating
4.02 / 5 (686 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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