George Augustus Moore





George Augustus Moore

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born
February 24, 1852 in Moore Hall, Lough Carra, County Mayo, Ireland

died
January 21, 1933

gender
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George Augustus Moore was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. Moore came from a Roman Catholic landed family. 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 Émile Zola. His writings influenced James Joyce, according to the literary critic and biographer Richard Ellmann, 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 grea...more


Average rating: 3.40 · 178 ratings · 27 reviews · 32 distinct works
A Drama in Muslin
3.72 of 5 stars 372 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1981
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Confessions of a Young Man
3.08 of 5 stars 308 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1918 — 2 editions
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Esther Waters
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The Untilled Field
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Memoirs of My Dead Life
3.67 of 5 stars 367 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2007
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The Lake
4.25 of 5 stars 425 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions
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Classic Irish Short Stories...
5.0 of 5 stars 500 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2002
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The Brook Kerith
3.5 of 5 stars 350 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1916 — 2 editions
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Hail and Farewell! Part One
3.5 of 5 stars 350 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1976 — 2 editions
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Parnell and His Island
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“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
George Augustus Moore, The Brook Kerith