Maurice Guest, by Henry Handel Richardson
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Maurice Guest, by Henry Handel Richardson - Published on: 2015-10-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.21" h x 1.31" w x 6.14" l, 2.30 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 624 pages
Maurice Guest, by Henry Handel Richardson About the Author Hugh Walpole was born in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1884, before moving to England. He wrote a great many books, of which Mr Perrin and Mr Traill was his favourite. He died in London in 1941.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful. Love can be joy, or our undoing! That has not changed since this novel was written. By Stancy Merwin I read this book because I read that the movie RHAPSODY was loosely based on it, and I did enjoy that melodramatic film. The film is really not much like the book, except that in both, the hero has an obsessive love for the heroine, Louise, that proves very dangerous for him. I will say this: the movie RHAPSODY is more "FUN" than the novel MAURICE GUEST. Love is painful at times, and what is it really, anyway? That is part of what the novel is about.This is as good a book about jealousy and infatuation as you will find, certainly for its era, and there are different ways one could look at the hero, Maurice, and his "issues." The music provides more of a backdrop than it does in the film (in the film the music is "in your face" and a real high point), but it is a good backdrop. Richardson is a descriptive, flowery writer--very good, but if you are looking for a "quick read," this is not the book for you. If you want a succinct writer, try Henning Mankell, for one!If you have the time, though, and like novels with European settings that show the culture, values and tastes of an earlier time--and if you like detailed personality studies--then you will enjoy MAURICE GUEST. I did. This would be a good book to get into on a long train or plane ride, when you want to escape to an earlier time and ponder the mystery of love.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A forgotten masterpiece By Slioch `Maurice Guest' is the first novel of Henry Handel Richardson, the pseudonym of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson (1870 - 1946). Born in Australia, her later novel `The Fortunes of Richard Mahony' is based on the life and mental decline of her father. In 1888, several years after her father's death, her mother took Ethel and her younger sister to Leipzig where Ethel studied music, and her time there formed the background for `Maurice Guest' which was published in 1908. She later lived in England, latterly in Sussex, and apart from a visit when researching `Richard Mahony', she did not return to live in Australia.Henry Handel Richardson was Australian by birth, and wrote `Maurice Guest' while living in England, but this great novel is fundamentally in the European tradition. Its theme of obsessional love has led to comparison with Madame Bovary, but Dostoesvsky is the more obvious influence. Unlike many English novels of its time, the author's voice never appears, and different viewpoints are beautifully managed so that conflicting views of characters each have credibility. It is a study of obsession, without moral conclusions. The style is incremental, the writing subtle and intelligent.Maurice is neither a heroic nor an anti-heroic figure, but as the novel progresses, he becomes more and more credible - even frighteningly so towards the end. His obsession with Louise Dufrayer, and her relationship with him, are brilliantly portrayed.When I reached the end of this long novel, I felt that I had read a truly great work of literature, and I was amazed and sad that both book and author are now virtually unknown.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. I LOVE H H RICHARDSON By P. J. WILLIAMS I read, and studied this author's , "The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney" (pronounced "Mahnee") fifty-four years ago, and loved it. My wife urged me to read "Maurice Guest" many years ago, and I have finally done it. It is magnificent, and I consider H H Richardson to be Australia's finest author. I find a lot of George Eliot in it. Her command of language is wonderful, and she embarks on sweeping, powerful descriptions, confident in her ability to hold an intelligent reader.She breaks all today's rules on the way. Do not enter here if you afraid of adverbs, universal point of view and powerful, passionate description. To use that over-used word again, I repeat that it is passionate. There are ironic characters worthy of Jane Austen, and the central female character is a kind of Heathcliff.The depiction of Leipzig Conservatorium of the 1890s is amazingly contemporary. The behaviour of the students, the academic infighting, the ebb and flow of artistic fashions are all with us today. It is one of the rare books about music which rings true and from the 1960s to the present I will vouch for its accuracy. Far from afflicting us with conventional Victorian values, Richardson shows us the demi-monde which always existed alongside.Not the least interesting aspect is the issue of English as opposed to Continental views - on music, art, beauty. Some of these arguments are visited a number of times, but always with a different aspect to deepen our understanding. Louise is the central character - a peculiar creature, irresistibly attractive but a law unto herself. Richardson's description of Maurice's infatuation is uncanny in its passion (there's that word again). It is sensuous writing of the highest order.Is beauty a gift? Or is it a talent? Is decent Maurice a lovelorn swain, or a manipulative schemer?Everything that happens in this book I feel to be believable and true. I've seen it and I have no doubt H H Richardson did too. She just happened to write a great book about it.
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