{"product_id":"maurice-by-e-m-forster","title":"Maurice by E M Forster","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ca class=\"doPublisherSearch\" href=\"https:\/\/ipage.ingramcontent.com\/ipage\/productdetail?queryString=H4sIAAAAAAAA_6tWKk5RskpLzClO1VEqzs9XsiopKgUyC0qUrJSc8vOzlYDs4iolKyNTICMHKOgaEeKiBFILZLv4-oHZBUpW0dGGOkpAtndqZXl-UUp8SGZJTiqQ75tYWpSZnKoUG1sLADL2dptsAAAA\u0026amp;R=155834\u0026amp;dNo=1#\"\u003eW. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist introduces us to Maurice Hall when he is fourteen. We follow him through public school and Cambridge, and into his father's firm. In a highly structured society, Maurice is a conventional young man in almost every way--except that he is homosexual.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten during 1913 and 1914, immediately after\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHowards End\u003c\/em\u003e, and not published until 1971,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaurice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas ahead of its time in its theme and in its affirmation that love between men can be happy. \"Happiness,\" Forster wrote, \"is its keynote....In\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaurice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eI 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. Into this mixture I dropped an ingredient that puzzles him, wakes him up, torments him and finally saves him.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dotters Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52492052136229,"sku":"9780393310320","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2167\/5269\/files\/9780393310320.gif?v=1780156219","url":"https:\/\/dottersbooks.com\/products\/maurice-by-e-m-forster","provider":"Dotters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}