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George Augustus Moore

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born

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

died

January 21, 1933

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction

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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

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Books by George Augustus Moore

Average rating: 3.40 · 178 ratings · 27 reviews · 32 distinct works

	A Drama in Muslin 372 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1981	My rating:
	Confessions of a Young Man 308 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1918 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Esther Waters 339 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1894 — 29 editions	My rating:
	The Untilled Field 300 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Memoirs of My Dead Life 367 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	The Lake 425 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Classic Irish Short Stories, Vol. 1 500 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	The Brook Kerith 350 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1916 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Hail and Farewell! Part One 350 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1976 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Parnell and His Island by George Augustus Moore, Carla King 300 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2004	My rating: