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Maurice Guest

by Henry Handel Richardson · 1908

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(From the blurb) An autobiographical novel, Maurice Guest is set in the musical culture of Leipzig, where Richardson was a student from 1889 to 1892. The international cast of music students perform, debate, love, drink and play in the musical shadows of J S Bach, Beethoven, Wagner, Richard Strauss and Bizet. This intense, uncompromising and self-obsessed world in Leipzig is the context for Maurice's consuming obsession for the 'unreadable' and elusive Louise Dufrayer, an Australian femme fatale.

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AustraliaAustraliaMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
epic · 630 pages

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