|h1>[Maurice is a novel by E. M. Forster, drafted in 1913-1914.]
(click-replace: ?h1)[|h2>[A tale of homosexual love in early 20th-century England.]]
(click-replace: ?h2)[|h3>[The texts are adapted from Maurice's Wikipedia page.]]
Next chapter: [[Maurice Hall]]|h1>[Maurice Hall, age fourteen, discusses sex and women with his prep-school teacher Ben Ducie just before Maurice progresses to his public school.]
(click-replace:?h1)[|h2>[Maurice feels removed from the depiction of marriage with a woman as the goal of life.]]
Next chapter: [[Cambridge Years]]|h1>[Some years later, while studying at Cambridge, Maurice befriends a fellow student Clive Durham.]
(click-replace:?h1)[|h2>[Durham introduces him to ancient Greek writings about same-sex love, including Plato's Symposium, and after a short time the two begin a romantic relationship, which continues until they have left university.]]
Next chapter: [[Clive = Heterosexual]]
Next chapter: [[Clive = Homosexual]]|h1>[After visiting Rome, Clive Durham falls ill.]
(click-replace:?h1)[|h2>[On recovery, Clive ends his relationship with Maurice, professing he is heterosexual and marrying a woman.]]
(click-replace:?h2)[|h3>[Maurice is devastated, but he becomes a stockbroker, in his spare time helping to operate a Christian mission's boxing gym for working-class boys in the East End, although under Clive's influence he has long since abandoned his Christian beliefs.]]
Next chapter: [['cure' himself]]|h1>[He makes an appointment with a hypnotist, Mr. Lasker Jones, in an attempt to "cure" himself.]
(click-replace:?h1)[|h2>[Lasker Jones refers to his condition as "congenital homosexuality" and claims a 50 per cent success rate in curing this "condition".]]
(click-replace:?h2)[|h3>[After the first appointment, it is clear that the hypnotism has failed.]]
Next chapter: [[Meeting Under-gamekeeper Alec Scudder]]
Next chapter: [[Not Meeting New People]]|h1>[Maurice is invited to stay with the Durhams.]
(click-replace:?h1)[|h2>[There, at first unnoticed by him, is the young under-gamekeeper Alec Scudder (called Scudder for large passages of the book), who has noticed Maurice.]]
(click-replace:?h2)[|h3>[One night, a heartbroken Maurice calls for Clive to join him.]]
(click-replace:?h3)[|h4>[Believing that Maurice is calling for him, Alec climbs to his window with a ladder and the two spend the night together.]]
Next chapter: [[Alec threatens Maurice.]]|h1>[After their first night together, Maurice panics, fearing he will be exposed as a homosexual.]
(click-replace:?h1)[|h2>[Alec is wounded by Maurice's refusal to answer his letters, and threatens to expose him.]]
Next chapter: [[Seek Counseling]]
Next chapter: [[Threatened & Withdrawned]]|h1>[After another night together, Alec tells Maurice that he is emigrating to Argentina and will not return.]
(click-replace:?h1)[|h2>[Maurice asks Alec to stay with him, and indicates that he is willing to give up his social and financial position, as well as his job.]]
(click-replace:?h2)[|h3>[Alec does not accept the offer.]]
(click-replace:?h3)[|h4>[After initial resentment, Maurice decides to bid Alec farewell.]]
Next chapter: [[Alec did not leave.]]
Next chapter: [[Alec left.]]|h1>[Maurice visits Clive and outlines what has happened with Alec.]
(click-replace:?h1)[|h2>[Clive is left speechless and unable to comprehend.]]
(click-replace:?h2)[|h30>[Maurice leaves to be with Alec, and Clive never sees him again.]]
(click-replace:?h30)[|h31>[...]]
(click-replace:?h31)[|h32>[... ...]]
(click-replace:?h32)[|h33>[... ... ...]]
(click-replace:?h33)[|h4>["Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec?]]
(click-replace:?h4)[|h5>[Someone to last your whole life and you his.]]
(click-replace:?h5)[|h6>[I suppose such a thing can’t really happen outside sleep."]]
(click-replace:?h6)[|h7>[THE END]]|h1>[He is taken aback when Alec is not at the harbour.]
(click-replace:?h1)[|h2>[In a hurry, he makes for the Durhams' estate, where the two lovers were supposed to have met before at a boathouse.]]
(click-replace:?h2)[|h3>[He finds Alec, who assumes Maurice had received the telegram Alec had sent to his residence.]]
(click-replace:?h3)[|h4>[Alec had changed his mind, and intends to stay with Maurice, telling him that they "shan't be parted no more".]]
Next chapter: [[Goodbye Clive]]|h2>[After graduating from college, Durham and Maurice moved to [[France]].]
(click-replace:?h2)[|h3>[Though Durham had to leave his family fortune behind, he soon became a lawyer, while Maurice worked for an investment firm.]]
(click-replace:?h3)[|h4>[They lived a happy and wealthy life thereafter.]]
(click-replace:?h4)[|h5>[THE END]]|h1>[Maurice goes to Lasker Jones one more time.]
(click-replace:?h1)[|h2>[Knowing that the therapy is failing, he tells Maurice to consider relocating to a country where same-sex relationships are legal, such as France or Italy.]]
(click-replace:?h2)[|h3>[Maurice wonders if same-sex relationships will ever be acceptable in England, to which Lasker Jones replies "I doubt it. England has always been disinclined to accept human nature."]]
Next chapter: [[Forgive Alec]]1791 – France becomes the first Western European country to decriminalize homosexual acts between consenting adults.|h1>[After breaking up with Clive, Maurice did not enter heterosexual marriage.]
(click-replace:?h1)[|h2>[Nor did he have any luck of finding someone else to love.]]
(click-replace:?h2)[|h3>[As years went by, he gradually forgot about Clive and got used to his lonely life.]]
(click-replace:?h3)[|h4>[THE END]]|h1>[Maurice went into depression after being threatened by Alec.]
(click-replace:?h1)[|h2>[Alec was insecure and interpreted Maurice's silence as rejection.]]
(click-replace:?h2)[|h5>[As time healed wounded Maurice and Alec, the love between them also vanished.]]
(click-replace:?h5)[|h6>[They moved on with their lives as two strangers with some scars in their hearts.]]
(click-replace:?h6)[|h7>[THE END]]|h1>[Maurice and Alec meet at the British Museum in London to discuss the blackmail.]
(click-replace:?h1)[|h2>[It becomes clear that they are in love with each other, and Maurice calls him Alec for the first time.]]
Next chapter: [[Another night together]]|h1>[Alec left England for Argentina where same-sex sexual activity has been legal since 1887.]
(click-replace:?h1)[|h2>[Alec got used to the life in Argentina and found someone to love there.]]
(click-replace:?h2)[|h3>[Maurice left England for France, and he also found someone else there.]]
(click-replace:?h3)[|h4>[THE END]]