Maurice

Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970) wrote six novels - Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), The Longest Journey (1907), A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910), A Passage to India (1924). Maurice , written in 1914, was published posthumously in 1971. He also published two volumes of short stories; two collections of essays; a critical work (Aspects of the Novel); The Hill of Devi; two biographies; two books about Alexandria; and the libretto for Britten's opera Billy Budd. David Leavitt is the author of several novels and story collections, most recently The Body of Jonah Boyd (2004). With Mark Mitchell, he edited the Penguin US edition of E.M. Forster's Selected Stories, as well as The New Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories. He lives in Gainesville, Florida, where he is Professor of English at the University of Florida.

出版者:Penguin Classic

作者:E. M. Forster

页数:256

出版时间:2005-8-30

价格:USD 22.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780141441139

图书标签:E.M.Forster英国文学小说英国Maurice英文原版同性同志

An astonishingly frank and deeply autobiographical account of homosexual relationships in an era when love between men was not only stigmatised, but also illegal, E.M. Forster's Maurice is edited by P.N. Furbank with an introduction by David Leavitt in Penguin Classics. Maurice Hall is a young man who grows up confident in his privileged status and well aware of his role in society. Modest and generally conformist, he nevertheless finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Through Clive, whom he encounters at Cambridge, and through Alec, the gamekeeper on Clive's country estate, Maurice gradually experiences a profound emotional and sexual awakening. A tale of passion, bravery and defiance, this intensely personal novel was completed in 1914 but remained unpublished until after Forster's death in 1970. Compellingly honest and beautifully written, it offers a powerful condemnation of the repressive attitudes of British society, and is at once a moving love story and an intimate tale of one man's erotic and political self-discovery. In his introduction, David Leavitt explores the significance of the novel in relation to Forster's own life and as a founding work of modern gay literature. This edition reproduces the Abinger text of the novel, and includes new notes, a chronology and further reading. E. M. Forster (1879-1970) was a noted English author and critic and a member of the Bloomsbury group. His first novel, Where Angels Fear To Tread appeared in 1905. The Longest Journey appeared in 1907, followed by A Room With A View (1908), based partly on the material from extended holidays in Italy with his mother. Howards End (1910) was a story that centred on an English country house and dealt with the clash between two families, one interested in art and literature, the other only in business. Maurice was revised several times during his life, and finally published posthumously in 1971. If you enjoyed Maurice, you might like Forster's A Room With a View, also available in Penguin Classics.

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莱昂内尔•特里林，美国著名批评家，被称为20世界中期美国年青一代的思想导师。1970年特里林在担任哈佛大学诺顿诗歌教授时曾就西方文学中自我之真诚与真实问题做了一系列演讲，此即《诚与真》演讲集，面世后成为西方现代批评的经典文本。虽是文学批评经典，特里林的论...  

莱昂内尔•特里林，美国著名批评家，被称为20世界中期美国年青一代的思想导师。1970年特里林在担任哈佛大学诺顿诗歌教授时曾就西方文学中自我之真诚与真实问题做了一系列演讲，此即《诚与真》演讲集，面世后成为西方现代批评的经典文本。虽是文学批评经典，特里林的论...  

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用户评价

两个半夜三更翻别人窗户的家伙真是天生一对

囫囵吞枣读完了。后半部分比较好读。很个人很浪漫。很多地方，just tell no show。然而爱情故事总是有点闷的，同性恋爱情也不例外。听说电影很好看，有年轻时候的雷探长……

狗血地概括起来的话，A扳弯了B，然后告诉B，我又直啦。然后B之后的挣扎才真正让人感动，在当时的环境下，Forster没有妥协把这本书写成道德说教，而是给了一个让爱获胜的结局。可是……说真的C有点猥琐。

幸亏读到了原著，之前读的中文译本太糟糕，怎么可以那么糟糕！！！

看过电影后找来原著，果然删减的很严重，但是电影的魅力在于能把书中留白的含蓄转变成具像的触动，比如晨醒告别的时候就处理的比文字更优美。当然了，文字的话，Maurice那种静谧的思绪更完善。我爱Maurice！