Maurice a Novel
Registered by Ghost_Dog of Merrimack, New Hampshire USA on 7/17/2018
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Released at Little Free Library in Bedford, NH
Journal Entry 2 by Ghost_Dog at Little Free Library, Hersey St. in Bedford, New Hampshire USA on Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Released 5 yrs ago (7/17/2018 UTC) at Little Free Library, Hersey St. in Bedford, New Hampshire USA
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Maurice
A.M. Forster
Released 7/17/18 at Little Free Library, Bedford, NH
A.M. Forster
Released 7/17/18 at Little Free Library, Bedford, NH
Thanks to Ghost_Dog for releasing this at the Bedford NH LFL - I hadn't known there was one in that location! Stopped by today to drop off some books of my own, and found this there. I decided to leave it for someone else, but wanted to add my comments, as it's a favorite book of mine.
I first read the book some years back and enjoyed it - and I also liked the 1987 film version by James Ivory, which was among the more faithful book-to-film adaptations I've ever seen. [The young Rupert Graves was stunning as Alec, the gamekeeper, which didn't hurt!]
The story combines the coming-of-age of Maurice, a (rather stuffy and complacent, at first) young upper-middle-class fellow, and his eventual realization that he's gay - or, as he puts it, "an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort". His first love, Clive, a fellow student at Cambridge, denies the physical side of their affection and insists that they should put all that behind them once they're grown, but while Clive eventually marries and claims to be content, Maurice can't deny his own nature - though he gives it a good try, visiting doctors and so forth. When he meets the lusty young gamekeeper Alec, his resolve crumbles, and... well, the novel ends in a way that's highly satisfying to the reader, if not perhaps quite believable for that time and place.
[There's a TV Tropes page on the book and adaptation, with some entertaining tidbits.]
I first read the book some years back and enjoyed it - and I also liked the 1987 film version by James Ivory, which was among the more faithful book-to-film adaptations I've ever seen. [The young Rupert Graves was stunning as Alec, the gamekeeper, which didn't hurt!]
The story combines the coming-of-age of Maurice, a (rather stuffy and complacent, at first) young upper-middle-class fellow, and his eventual realization that he's gay - or, as he puts it, "an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort". His first love, Clive, a fellow student at Cambridge, denies the physical side of their affection and insists that they should put all that behind them once they're grown, but while Clive eventually marries and claims to be content, Maurice can't deny his own nature - though he gives it a good try, visiting doctors and so forth. When he meets the lusty young gamekeeper Alec, his resolve crumbles, and... well, the novel ends in a way that's highly satisfying to the reader, if not perhaps quite believable for that time and place.
[There's a TV Tropes page on the book and adaptation, with some entertaining tidbits.]