Maurice Author:E. M. Forster Maurice is born into a privileged, dominating way of life. He grows up confident in status, precise in social ritual. Yet, although priggish and conforming, Maurice finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex....Like E.M. Forster's other novels, Maurice is a plea for intellectual honesty, for nature and spontaniety; an attack on the st... more »uffiness, pretence and humbug of English life.« less