During his time at college, Maurice Christopher Hall becomes involved in a romantic (yet strictly chaste) relationship with his Cambridge colleague, Clive Durham, until the latter decides to marry a woman–leaving Maurice desolate and heartbroken. The novel is an essence a Bildungsromanthat traces the emotional development of the eponymous hero as he deals with the repercussions of being homosexual in Edwardian England. Maurice, a central text within the gay literary canon, is by far one of the bravest creative works written within the genre of LGBT literature arguably, it is one of the bravest texts of the early twentieth century.
Happiness is its keynote–which by the way has had an unexpected result: it has made the book more difficult to publish.” I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense Maurice and Alec still roam in the greenwood. I shouldn’t have bothered to write otherwise.
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