{"product_id":"maurice-9780393310320","title":"Maurice","description":"\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 his is homosexual.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten during 1913 and 1914, immediately after \u003ci\u003eHowards End\u003c\/i\u003e, and not published until 1971, \u003ci\u003eMaurice\u003c\/i\u003e was 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 \u003ci\u003eMaurice\u003c\/i\u003e I 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/17\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393310320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.70d","brand":"E. M. Forster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36636875325596,"sku":"9780393310320","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_3de1709a-a25b-4c8c-826c-aa0c6c4549bd.jpg?v=1603843227","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/maurice-9780393310320","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}