George Moore

George Moore's Books and Stories

Vain Fortune

Literature

5.0

George Augustus Moore (24 February 1852 - 21 January 1933) was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. Moore came from a Roman Catholic landed family who lived at Moore Hall in Carra, County Mayo.[1] He originally wanted to be a painter, and studied art in Paris during the 1870s. There, he befriended many of the leading French artists and writers of the day. As a naturalistic writer, he was amongst the first English-language authors to absorb the lessons of the French realists, and was particularly influenced by the works of Emile Zola.[2] His writings influenced James Joyce, according to the literary critic and biographer Richard Ellmann, [3] and, although Moore's work is sometimes seen as outside the mainstream of both Irish and British literature, he is as often regarded as the first great modern Irish novelist."

Spring Days

Literature

3.5

Spring Days by George Moore

Esther Waters

Literature

5.0

Esther Waters by George Moore

A Mummer's Wife

Literature

5.0

Kate Ede is bored provincial housewife. She is married to an asthmatic draper. This seemingly uneventful and hopeless existence is suddenly disturbed by a handsome travelling actor who comes to lodge with her family. Kate succumbs to temptation and has to face disastrous consequences.