{"product_id":"maurice-9780393310320-new","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 he is homosexual.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten during 1913 and 1914, immediately after \u003cem\u003eHowards End\u003c\/em\u003e, and not published until 1971, \u003cem\u003eMaurice\u003c\/em\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 \u003cem\u003eMaurice\u003c\/em\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","brand":"W W NORTON \u0026 CO","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":52594000167202,"sku":"9780393310320-new","price":15.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0893\/4755\/5618\/files\/9780393310320.jpg?v=1789929201","url":"https:\/\/www.albakireads.com\/products\/maurice-9780393310320-new","provider":"AlbakiReads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}