E.M. Forster
New companion hardbacks of E.M. Forster's coming of age novels, Maurice and A Room with a View, were published by Faber in the autumn of 2024, with illustrations by Luke.
People were all around them, but with eyes that had gone intensely blue he whispered, ‘I love you.’
Maurice is widely considered a founding work of modern gay literature. Although completed in 1914, this groundbreaking novel could not be published in Forster’s lifetime. Fittingly, it acts as a piercing critique of the suffocating ideals that permeated British society at the time. Forster himself said: ‘I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense, Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.’
"Maurice is a book that means a lot of different things to a lot of people."
Read about the design process behind Luke's E.M. Forster covers for Penguin here