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Remembering the gay classic Maurice

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Pop culture guru David Ferguson is back, taking a look at EM Forster’s classic of gay literature ‘Maurice’ and its film adaptation starring Hugh Grant.A while back I decided I wanted to read a gay romance novel.

The first one that appeared on my search was Maurice (1971) by EM Forster. Forster is probably best known for A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924).The novel is a coming of age tale about the relationship between middle-class Maurice Hall and upper-class Clive Durham, who meet while studying at Cambridge in the early 1900’s.

Durham realised he was gay from a young age but Hall struggles with his sexuality. He even seeks the help of a psychiatrist / hypnotist to ‘cure’ him.

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