I struggled with this book for weeks. It has been by my bed and inside my bag for so long that it's falling apart. It's only 100 pages.Maurice is about a person named Maurice who discovers that he's gay and tries to live with it. He falls for Clive, and half of the book revolves around how they've e...
You know that moment you and start a book you’ve been wanting to read but haven’t. Maybe you’ve had trouble finding a copy of it or maybe all the hype around it has turned you off or maybe you’re not quite sure you’ll like the book simply because of who wrote it and when and why. And then you fall h...
Personally, I think that M-M Romance is purely escapist fiction with minimum requirements that go beyond the simple happy ending, so I don't feel to include Maurice in this genre therefore in my rating system - it would be unbearable.And also as classic novel, stylistically speaking, it is not one o...
What can I say about 'Maurice'? It could have been monumental if Forster had had the guts to publish it any earlier time in the decades he kept it hidden after he wrote it just before WWI. But he didn't and with each year 'Maurice' becomes more dated. And naïve, and not in a good, charming way.I've ...
I kind of expected that I would love this book. A Room with a View by Mr. Forster is one of my all-time favorite books, mostly because of the message it sends about love and life and living with intent and passion. As soon as I found out that this same author had written a m/m romance in 1913/1914...
Forster finished writing Maurice in 1914, but it was not until 1971 that the book was actually published for obvious reasons. Homosexuality was not legal until 1967 in the UK and even so, such an open and positive story about a gay relationship wasn’t something that would have been accepted at the t...
This book ended up being rather awesome. For a novel that discusses homosexuality in early 20th century England it’s certainly very candid, though for today’s readers it might seem chaste. You won’t find any explicit scenes in it. But there are a lot of subtle emotions and heartfelt yearnings writte...
I wouldn't call this a review post, mainly because I doubt I'd be able to write a suitable one. However, I couldn't just let it pass without writing something about the book that will most likely end up being one of my all time favorites.Written in the 1910s, but not released until 1971, after the a...
Beautifully written gay oxbridge novel from 1913 when gay meant, to most folk, upbeat and queer was sommit akin to the odd. Posthumously printed in 1971. 'Omit the reference to the unspeakable vice of the Greeks*Followed the read with the Merchant Ivory 1987 Production starring a very young Hugh Gra...
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