Maurice Guest
Author: Henry Handel Richardson
ISBN: 9781920899042
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Year first published: 01 Jul 2008
Pages: 628
Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN: 9781920899042
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Year first published: 01 Jul 2008
Pages: 628
Format: Paperback / softback
An autobiographical novel set in the musical culture of 1890s Leipzig, where Richardson was a student from 1889 to 1892. An international cast of music students perform, debate, love and drink in an intense and self-possessed world in Leipzig the context to Maurice's consuming obsession for the elusive Louise Dufrayer, an Australian femme fatale.