FORSTER, E. M.

Maurice

London: Edward Arnold, 1971. First Edition. Demy octavo : pp. [x] [241] [3, blanks] : plain endpapers : top edge dyed red : black cloth lettered in gilt on spine : black unclipped jacket lettered in white and red. Light edgewear to jacket; laminate lifting at top joint of jacket, minor foxing to the edges of the text block. Item #15725

Published posthumously, Forster's Maurice describes the long and difficult process of a middle class man discovering and eventually celebrating his homosexuality. Written in 1914 at the height of the novelist's powers, its appearance in 1971 was seen as a literary event of great importance.

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