7/1/2023 0 Comments Alec di canzio![]() ![]() There’s a Homeric intensity to the battle scenes, though more personal than in the Iliad. We see trench warfare through Alec’s eyes in letters he writes to Maurice. When Alec sees he can’t remain with Maurice, he joins as an infantryman in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. They enlist together, but as Maurice studied at Cambridge and is considered upper class, he’s made an officer. They plan an idyllic life together away from society, but then war breaks out. ![]() After misunderstandings and confusion, Alec and Maurice acknowledge their love for each other. There he meets Clive’s university friend Maurice Hall. Despising the class system and happiest in nature, Alec finds work as gamekeeper on the estate owned by Clive Durham. ![]() Alec is bright in school and later further educated in the Working Men’s College, where Forster himself taught. Forster’s novel Maurice from working class Alec Scudder’s perspective, then carries forward the story of his forbidden love in straight-laced pre-World War I England. William di Canzio retells the ending of E.M. Published August 15, 2021, Historical Novel Review ![]()
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