Maurice lay on a leather chaise. He watched the watch swing. He wanted to be normal. He wanted to marry a girl named Anne and have children who would call him "Father." He wanted the stone in the well to stop echoing.
"You are obtuse, Hall," Clive would say, but kindly. And Maurice would laugh, a deep, rumbling sound, and think: If you only knew the exact geometry of my obtuseness. maurice by em forster
They fished out the cat. It was dead. They stood there, two men in the wet, holding a small, sodden corpse. And something passed between them—not a word, not a touch. Just the recognition that both of them were standing on the wrong side of a fence that everyone else pretended was a wall. Maurice lay on a leather chaise
Cambridge: friendship with Clive and awakening He wanted to marry a girl named Anne
: Unlike the "soulful" protagonists typical of the era, Maurice is a conventional, somewhat snobbish stockbroker who must grapple with a secret that alienates him from Edwardian society.
For most of his life, E.M. Forster was known as the master of the "Condition of England" novel—the man behind the polite societal critiques of A Room with a View and Howards End . But tucked away in a drawer was a manuscript that would have likely ended his career had it been published in his lifetime.