{"product_id":"9781921961755","title":"Maurice Guest","description":"\u003cb\u003eA passionate and controversial novel, set in turn-of-the-century Europe.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Henry Handel Richardson's debut, published in London in 1908, is set in the music scene of Leipzig, a cosmopolitan centre for the arts drawing students from around the world. Among them is Maurice Guest, a young Englishman, who falls helplessly in love with an Australian woman, Louise Dufrayer.\u003ci\u003e Maurice Guest\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of this overwhelming passion. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The novel was deemed too controversial to be published as Richardson intended, and she was forced to cut twenty thousand words from the original manuscript and tone down its language. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Carmen Callil, in her introduction, writes: 'it remains a great novel, one that, once it grasps your imagination, is impossible to put down for more than a moment, leading every reader into a dreamtime remembrance of the terrible pain the human heart is heir to.' \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Henry Handel Richardson\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Melbourne in 1870.  Richardson was sent to board at the Presbyterian Ladies College in 1883, an experience that provided material for her novel \u003ci\u003eThe Getting of Wisdom\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1888, she travelled to Europe, married and settled in London. Richardson published her first novel, \u003ci\u003eMaurice Guest\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1908. She made her only journey back to Australia in 1912 to complete her research for the trilogy that would become \u003ci\u003eThe Fortunes of Richard Mahony\u003c\/i\u003e. Her final novel \u003ci\u003eThe Young Cosima\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in 1939. \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Carmen Callil\u003c\/b\u003e founded Virago Press in 1972 and later became managing director of Chatto \u0026amp; Windus and the Hogarth Press. Since 1995 she has worked as a writer and critic. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eBad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland\u003c\/i\u003e, and co-author, with Colm Toibin, of \u003ci\u003eThe Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English since 1950\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003etextpublishing.com.au\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"The Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175904428272,"sku":"9781921961755","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781921961755_p0.jpg?v=1763632561","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781921961755","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}