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George Augustus Moore was born on February 24, 1852, at Moore Hall, county Mayo, Ireland.
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Esther Waters (Oxford World's Classics)
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Here is the only available paperback edition of George Moore's powerful novel, Esther Waters. Controversial and influential on its first appearance in 1894, the book opened up a new direction for the English realist tradition. Unflinching in its depiction of the dark and sordid side of Victorian culture, it remains one of the great novels of London life and labor in the 1890s. The novel depicts with extraordinary candor Esther's struggles against prejudice and injustice, and the growth of her character as she determines to protect her son. Her moving story is set against the backdrop of a world of horse racing, betting, and public houses, whose vivid depiction led James Joyce to call Esther Waters "the best novel of modern English life." The new introduction by Stephen Regan examines the novel's vivid depiction of Victorian sub-culture, horse-racing and gambling, the London tavern, and the life of working-class women, and he also explores the stylistic influences of French naturalism and Impressionist painting. The new edition includes considerably expanded explanatory notes that provide helpful glosses on unfamiliar expressions and define a range of horse racing and betting terms. In addition, there is an improved chronology and a new bibliography. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Confessions of a Young Man
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Although George Moore is mostly remembered for his masterpiece, Esther Waters, he was one of the most influential and versatile Anglo-Irish writers of the turn of the 19th century. Marriage--what an abomination! Love--yes, but not marriage. Love cannot exist in marriage, because love is an ideal; that is to say, something not quite understood--transparencies, colour, light, a sense of the unreal. But a wife--you know all about her--who her father was, who her mother was, what she thinks of you and her opinion of the neighbours over the way. Where, then, is the dream, the au delà? There is none. I say in marriage an au delà is impossible ... the endless duet of the marble and the water, the enervation of burning odours, the baptismal whiteness of women, light, ideal tissues, eyes strangely dark with kohl, names that evoke palm trees and ruins, Spanish moonlight or maybe Persepolis. The monosyllable which epitomises the ennui and the prose of our lives is heard not, thought not there--only the nightingale-harmony of an eternal yes. Freedom limitless; the Mahometan stands on the verge of the abyss, and the spaces of perfume and colour extend and invite him with the whisper of a sweet unending yes. The unknown, the unreal.... Thus love is possible, there is a delusion, an au delà. Ugliness is trivial, the monstrous is terrible. (cover image courtesy of Macin Smolinski)
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George Augustus Moore
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On his father's death, George inherited Moore Hall, along with sufficient means to maintain himself in Paris as an artist. Despairing of success in painting, he tried his hand as a writer. He was deeply influenced by Émile Zola and such French realists as Gustave Flaubert and the Goncourt brothers; in 1894 with the novel Esther Waters, he came to be considered the leader of English realism.
Though he was seldom there, Moore remained emotionally involved with Ireland, whether idealizing the country as a last outpost of cultural independence or scorning it as provincial and barbarous. Many of his finest short stories have Irish settings and reveal a tender understanding of peasants and priests. Moore returned for a time to assist in the Irish Literary Theater, an experience he described in the trilogy Hail and Farewell (1911 - 1914).
Written in a deceptively simple style, it ranks among the great autobiographies in the English language. The Ireland of William Butler Yeats, John Millington Synge, AE, and Lady Gregory lives again in these caustic, imaginative, and often untruthful pages. In his later years Moore lived almost wholly in London, becoming the "grand old man of English letters. " To this period belong the novels The Brook Kerith (1916), Héloïse and Abélard (1921), Ulick and Soracha (1926), and Aphrodite in Aulis (1930), all poetic, fanciful works in which the subjects were taken from ancient or medieval times.
Only the third of these is about Ireland, from which Moore had increasingly detached himself. When in February 1923, Moore Hall was burned by Republicans because George's brother, Maurice, had accepted a post in the senate of the Irish Free State, Moore could never again think of Ireland or his brother without bitterness.
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Confessions of a Young Man
( Although George Moore is mostly remembered for his mast...)
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Esther Waters (Oxford World's Classics)
(Here is the only available paperback edition of George Mo...)
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Confessions of a Young Man
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January 21, 1933 (aged 80) -
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Castle Island, County Mayo, Ireland -
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Irish