![]() ![]() Into this mixture I dropped an ingredient that puzzles him, wakes him up, torments him and finally saves him. "Happiness," Forster wrote, "is its keynote.…In Maurice I tried to create a character who was completely unlike myself or what I supposed myself to be: someone handsome, healthy, bodily attractive, mentally torpid, not a bad businessman and rather a snob. He has received numerous awards, nominations and grants for both his adult fiction and his young. Written during 19, immediately after Howards End, and not published until 1971, Maurice was ahead of its time in its theme and in its affirmation that love between men can be happy. Maurice Gee is a distinguished New Zealand fiction writer. Written in 1914 by the Nobel Prizenominated author of Howards End, this intimate. In a highly structured society, Maurice is a conventional young man in almost every way-except that he is homosexual. We follow him through public school and Cambridge, and into his father's firm. Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist introduces us to Maurice Hall when he is fourteen. ![]() "The work of an exceptional artist working close to the peak of his powers." -Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times ![]()
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