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. His first novel, Where Angels Fear To Tread appeared in 1905. Forster (1879-1970) was a noted English author and critic and a member of the Bloomsbury group. This edition reproduces the Abinger text of the novel, and includes new notes, a chronology and further reading.Į. 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. 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.

A tale of passion, bravery and defiance, this intensely personal novel was completed in 1914 but remained unpublished until after Forster's death in 1970. 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. Modest and generally conformist, he nevertheless finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Maurice Hall is a young man who grows up confident in his privileged status and well aware of his role in society. Furbank with an introduction by David Leavitt in Penguin Classics.

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.

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