![]() ![]() ![]() Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 9780141441139 Number of pages: 272 Weight: 202 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 15 mm You may also be interested in. 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awakening.Ī tale of passion, bravery and defiance, this intensely personal novel was completed in 1914 but remained unpublished until after Forster's death in 1970.Ĭompellingly honest and beautifully written, it offers a powerful condemnation of the repressive attitudes of British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. Modest and generally conformist, he nevertheless finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Religion is one of the main forces which influence the social and personal life presented in E. Maurice Hall is a young man who grows up confident in his privileged status and well aware of his role in society. The present paper aims at a presentation of the issue of religion in Maurice both in the text of the novel and in its readings. An astonishingly frank and deeply autobiographical account of homosexual relationships in an era when love between men was not only stigmatised, but also illegal. ![]()
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