Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780393000269ISBN:0393000265
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Nice soft cover, lightly read, some shelf wear to cover, creases on spine, aging, light slant to book, stk #2162r8. Glued binding. 256 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Norton
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780393000269ISBN:0393000265
Description: Good. CT-Spine is well creased. Covers show wear a the edges and corners. Average Reading copy. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Norton
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780393000269ISBN:0393000265
Description: Good. AT-Spine is smooth. Covers show some wear. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780393000269ISBN:0393000265
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Clean unmarked pages. A Short diagonal bend near upper corner of front cover. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Norton
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780393000269ISBN:0393000265
Description: Fair. 0393000265 Mass Market Paperback, previously read used book in acceptable condition, great reading copy, fair amount of shelf wear..._ read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Norton, New York
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780393000269ISBN:0393000265
Description: Fair. No Jacket as Issued. Wear and creasing to the covers with a scuff to the heel of the spine. Pages toned. Previous owners name on inner front cover and front page. Otherwise clean and would be a good reading copy. read more
Edition: Unabridged. 1st printing.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780393086577ISBN:0393086577
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Ex-library. Usual library markings and attachments. Clean near white pages. Near VG condition. 256 p. read more
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"The historic significance of this book is certainly undeniable, as is the power and clarity with which it captures the pains of unrequited love and the eventual need to let go. The ending, although certainly hopeful, has a strong air of fantasy to it, one heightened by the fact that the author himself was never quite as brave as the lead character in his book, and he lived in the shadow of his Mother, along with Maurice, until his death."
"A bit of a slog, but fascinating to see a gay novel written so long ago - the book was written during 1913 and 1914, but because of its homosexual subject matter, not published until 1971. One senses that Forster was, even writing clandestinely, uncomfortable with his theme. His prose lacks the elegant grace of his best writings. Still, the affirmation that love between two men could be happy was one that rarely arose again until the 1960s and 1970s. It many ways, a book far ahead of its time."
"I've loved Forster for years and have been saving this particular book until I had a really difficult journey ahead of me. It didn't let me down--it's excellent. Forster says, "In Maurice I tried to create...someone handsome, healthy, bodily attractive, mentally torpid, not a bad businessman and rather a snob. Into this mixture I dropped an ingredient that puzzles him, wakes him up, torments him and finally saves him.""
"I'm a sucker for E.M. Forster. I find his books romantic and easy to love. Maurice has its problematic elements, which I chalk up to Forster's own fantasies of 'slumming it' with men from the working class and the then-popular concept of the masculine 'invert,' but overall, I really like this story, and as an early queer narrative, the happy ending is a very refreshing change from all the tragedy in books like The Well of Loneliness."
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