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Maurice Guest

    Maurice Guest is a classic romance novel by Henry Handel Richardson. Key subjects include conservatories of music.

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    About Maurice Guest

    "Maurice Guest" by Henry Handel Richardson is a novel published in 1908. In turn-of-the-century Leipzig, a young Englishman falls madly in love with an Australian woman, Louise Dufrayer. This debut novel traces their doomed affair to its tragic conclusion, offering an intense psychological study of obsessive love. Richardson's original manuscript was deemed too controversial, forcing her to cut twenty thousand words and moderate the language before publication. The novel was later adapted into the 1954 film "Rhapsody" starring Elizabeth Taylor.
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    Themes, setting & tropes

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    • Autobiographical fiction
    • Musical fiction
    • Love stories
    • Leipzig, Germany
    • Conservatories of music
    • Australians, Germany

    Quick answers

    Who wrote Maurice Guest?

    Maurice Guest was written by Henry Handel Richardson.

    What genre is Maurice Guest?

    It is usually shelved as Classic Love Stories.

    Is Maurice Guest free to read?

    Yes. It is in the public domain in the United States and can be read free on Project Gutenberg in EPUB, Kindle and HTML formats.

    What books are similar to Maurice Guest?

    Readers who like it often enjoy Henrietta Temple: A Love Story, Pride and Prejudice and Middlemarch.

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