George Moore (novelist)

George Augustus Moore (February 24, 1852 - January 21, 1933) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. Moore came from a Roman Catholic landed family, originally intended to be an artist, and studied art in Paris during the 1870s. There he befriended many of the leading French artists and writers of the day.

Works

Poetry

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• Flowers of Passion (1878)
• Pagan Poems (1881)

Plays

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• Worldliness (1874)
• Martin Luther (1879)
• The Strike at Arlingford (1893)
• The Bending of the Bough
• The Apostle (1911)
• Esther Waters, play (1913)
• Elizabeth Cooper: A Comedy in Three Acts (1913)
• The Coming of Gabrielle: A Comedy (1920)
• The Making of an Immortal, A Play in One Act (1927)
• Diarmuid and Grania (written with W. B. Yeats; produced 1901, published 1951)

Short fiction

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• Celibates (1895)
• An tÚr Ghort (1902)
• The Untilled Field (1903)
• A Story-Teller's Holiday (1918)

Novels

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• A Modern Lover (1883)
• A Mummer's Wife (1885)
• A Drama in Muslin (1887)
• Confessions of a Young Man (1888)
• A Mere Accident (1887)
• Mike Fletcher (1889)
• Vain Fortune (1891)
• Esther Waters (1894)
• Evelyn Innes (1898)
• Sister Teresa (1901)
• The Lake (1905)
• Muslin (1915)
• The Brook Kerith (1916)
• Lewis Seymour and Some Women (1917)
• Fragments from Héloïse and Abélard (1921)
• The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe (1924)
• Ulick and Soracha (1926)
• Aphroditis in Aulis (1930)

Critical writings

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• Literature at Nurse, or Circulating Morals (1885)
• Parnell and His Island (1887)
• Impressions and Opinions (1891)
• Modern Painting (1893)
• Reminiscences of the Impressionist Painters (1906)
• Memoirs of My Dead Life (1906)
• Avowals (1919)
• Conversations in Ebury Street

Memoirs

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• Confessions of a Young Man (1888)
• Hail and Farewell, 3 vols. comprising Ave, Salve, and Vale
• Ave (1911)
• Salve (1912)
• Vale (1914)
• Hail and Farewell (1925)
• A Communication to My Friends (1933)

Correspondence

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• Letters from George Moore to Eduard Dujardin 1886-1922 (1929)
• Letters of George Moore to John Eglinton (1942)
• George Moore: Letters to Lady Cunard 1895-1933 (1957)
• George Moore in Transition: Letters to T. Fisher Unwin and Lena Milman 1894-1910 (1968)
• George Moore on Parnassus: Letters 1900-1933 (1988)