Maurice Hall is a young man who grows up confident in his privileged status & well aware of his role in society. Modest & generally conformist, he nevertheless finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Through Clive, whom he encounters at Cambridge, & through Alec, the gamekeeper on Clive`s country estate, Maurice gradually experiences a profound emotional & sexual awakening. A tale of passion, bravery & defiance, this intensely personal novel was completed in 1914 but remained unpublished until after Forster`s death in 1970. Compellingly honest & beautifully written, it offers a powerful condemnation of the repressive attitudes of British society, & is at once a moving love story & an intimate tale of one man`s erotic & political self-discovery.