Maurice

E.M. Forster 1971

Devastation Rating

Ugly Crying
queer Edwardian class love

Our Take

Forster wrote this novel in 1914 and locked it away because it ended happily — which was too dangerous to publish. Maurice gets to live and love without apology. That Forster died without seeing it in print turns the happy ending into its own kind of grief.

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