Maurice: A Novel
London: Edward Arnold, 1971. Very Good / Very Good. Item #33348
ISBN: 0713156007
London: Edward Arnold, 1971. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in black dust jacket retaining original price, red topstain; xi,[1],240pp. Moderate creasing and bubbling to edges of dust jacket; wear to corners and rear joint; slight chipping at extremities. Mild shelfwear to boards; corners bumped. Slight lean to boards but binding sound. Brief dampstain to front free endpaper along fore-edge; overall a Very Good, sound copy.
Posthumous novel published a year after the author's death and more than fifty years after it was first composed, between 1913 and 1915. The work concludes with a "Terminal note," written in 1960 when Forster was past eighty years old. In it the author reassesses society's changing attitudes towards homosexuality, which is dealt with both sympathetically and positively in this novel: Maurice is famously one of the few early gay novels with a happy ending.
Price: $450.00