First time in Black Classics for Forster's autobiographical novel of homosexual love. 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 A tale of passion, bravery and defiance, this intensely personal novel was completed in 1914 but remained unpublished until after Forster's death in 1970.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.
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En kärlekshistoria en utvecklingshistoria. Om en ung typisk medelklass engelsman i början 1900 talet är det väl. Men han är bög och upptäckten av det skakar om honom och förändrar honom. Kärleken blir hans problem och hans räddning. Oavsett om man är homosexuell eller inte är detta en god utvecklingshistoria. Lite åldrad kanske, men nånstans har den en ärlighet som får den att kännas fräsch och angelägen.