《莫瑞斯/Maurice》作者：愛德華.摩根.福斯特 Edward Morgan Forster完結】
小說概況
這部小說是卓越的，因為它以一種浪漫而有趣的方式描述了一部同性戀的不朽之作，而這連作者自己都不相信。在他的手稿中，他曾質問道“出版，值得嗎？”讓Maurice區別於其他同時代的同性戀小說的地方是故事情節和故事中三個主角，作為三個不同階級、不同個性的男性的代表。
小說評價
一部探討社會價值與愛情衝突的經典文學作品。 這是一部描寫同性戀情的小說，莫瑞斯和克萊夫是劍橋大學的同學，他們背負社會歧視的壓力相愛三年，克萊夫突然提出中止這段感情，遂與安妮結婚。這一變故使莫瑞斯幾乎精神崩潰，走上自殺的道路。他尋求心理醫生的治療，譴責自己有罪，直到遇見深愛他的獵場看守者阿列克為止……Chapter 1
BEGUN 1913 FINISHED 1914
Dedicated to a Happier Year
PART
Once a term the whole school went for a walk—that is to say the three masters took part as well as all the boys. It was usually a pleasant outing, and everyone looked for-ward to it, forgot old scores, and behaved with freedom. Lest discipline should suffer, it took place just before the holidays, when leniency does no harm, and indeed it seemed more like a treat at home than school, for Mrs Abrahams, the Principal''s wife, would meet them at the tea place with some lady friends, and be hospitable and motherly.
Mr Abrahams was a preparatory schoolmaster of the old-fash-ioned sort. He cared neither for work nor games, but fed his boys well and saw that they did not misbehave. The rest he left to the parents, and did not speculate how much the parents were leaving to him. Amid mutual compliments the boys passed out into a public school, healthy but backward, to receive upon un-defended flesh the first blows of the world. There is much to be said for apathy in education, and Mr Abrahams''s pupils did not do badly in the long run, became parents in their turn, and in some cases sent him their sons. Mr Read, the junior assistant, was a master of the same type, only stupider, while Mr Ducie, the senior, acted as a stimulant, and prevented the whole concern from going to sleep. They did not like him much, but knew that he was necessary. Mr Ducie was an able man, orthodox, but not out of touch with the world, nor incapable of seeing both sides