George Moore

• 1894
• / General Fiction
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One of the great novels of London life and labour in the 1890s, Esther Waters is the story of a single mother struggling against prejudice and injustice. It vividly brings to life a world of horse racing, gambling, and public houses and was groundbre...

• Jun-1974
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• Jun-1974
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

• Jan-1982
• / Literary
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A reprint of the first edition written in the 1880s, this is generally considered to be the best version of one of Moore's greatest books. Set in Ireland in the 1880s against a backdrop of Land League troubles in Co. Mayo, and in Dublin, where the so...

• Jan-1985
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Honored in England and Ireland as the founder of realistic fiction, George Moore was a prolific short story writer whose heirs are James Joyce, Frank O'Connor, and Sean O'Faolain. In Minor Keys brings together the best of the stories Moore did not re...

• May-1986
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Moore wrote about The Lake that readers, “will learn how the Irish priest lives in single strictness, how he sometimes flies from it or takes to drink.” The novella concerns an Irish priest named Father Oliver Gogarty who is tormented by his unki...

• Jan-2001
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In these short stories, Moore affectionately depicts authentic scenes of Irish rural life. Moore originally penned them for translation into Irish as part of the Irish Renaissance movement. The stories, which focus on the themes of Church oppression,...

• Oct-2008
• / Fantasy
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Alfred and Elizabeth want something to do for the summer. Magic lessons sound like a good idea. But when they misread an ad in the paper that sternly states "No Rabbits " they meet Mr. Humphrey. Mr. Humphrey doesn't seem like any magician they've eve...

• Oct-2008
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A story of science, ghosts, and mysticism, set during the time of the Crusades, "The Secrets of the Alchemists" shows the alchemical transformation of two enemies whose ideals overcome the intolerance of the times. A young Christian boy, Tristan, is ...

• Mar-2010
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According to Wikipedia: 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. He originally wanted to be a pain...

• Mar-2011
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Title: Mike Fletcher. A novel.

Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million ite...

• Jan-2012
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Long out of print, George Moore's classic novella returns just in time for the major motion picture starring Glenn Close as a woman disguised as a man in nineteenth-century Ireland. Set in a posh hotel in nineteenth-century Dublin, Albert Nobbs is...

• Jun-2012
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During the 1880s, Moore began work on a series of novels in a realist style. His first novel, A Modern Lover (1883) was a three-volume work, as preferred by the circulating libraries, and deals with the art scene of the 1870s and 1880s in which many ...

• May-2013
• / General Fiction
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Having a large circle of friends who feel interested in my American trip, the propriety of publishing my observations, to avoid going over the same ground again and again, was suggested by one of them-a hint with which I have complied. I can say, wit...

• Dec-2014
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Alfred and Elizabeth want something to do for the summer. Magic lessons sound like a good idea. But when they misread an ad in the paper that sternly states “No Rabbits!” they meet Mr. Humphrey. Mr. Humphrey doesn’t seem like any magician they�...

• / Literary
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

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In The Brook Kerith, Christ does not die on the cross. Rather, he is nursed back to health and travels to India in search of wisdom. Hailed as a “remarkable achievement in fiction” by the New York Times -- but highly controversial when published ...

• / General Fiction
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In this haunting volume of three novella-length stories, Moore explores three characters, each drawn into a life of celibacy. The book features Mildred Lawson, the pretty but selfish woman who is plagued by the worry that her husband married her for ...

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The Confessions of a Young Man (1886 in French; 1888 in English) is a memoir by Irish novelist George Moore who spent about 15 years in his teens and 20s in Paris and later London as a struggling artist. The book is notable as being one of the first ...

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Evelyn Innes tells the story of an opera singer raised in a devoutly Catholic family who is seduced by two men -- a wealthy baronet who makes her famous, and later, an Irish composer (a thinly disguised version of William Butler Yeats). A priest trie...

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In this collection of stories published in 1922, Moore returns to the theme of sexual repression he explored in The Celibates. In each chapter of the book, Moore examines a different character wrestling with sexuality in one way or another. Moore giv...

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This 1917 novel tells the tale of a handsome, struggling artist who carelessly manipulates women for his own advantage -- including Lady Helen Seely, the rich and beautiful aristocrat whom he seduces and marries. The novel is a rewriting of Moore’s...

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A series of sketches, in some of which the love-affairs of the author's early life are realistically set before the reader....

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George Moore was an Irish novelist whose works were best known for their realism. In turn, he helped influence subsequent writers like James Joyce and other naturalists....

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have ende...

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...

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George Augustus Moore (1852-1933) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. His first book, a collection of poems called The Flowers of Passion, had appeared in 1878 and a second collection, Pagan Poems, fo...

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This 1884 novel examines the life of a woman seduced away from her invalid husband by a member of an operetta troupe. Moore’s unwavering account of the protagonist’s descent into alcoholism -- causing her to do unthinkable things -- was too bruta...

• / General Fiction
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George Moore was an Irish novelist whose works were best known for their realism. In turn, he helped influence subsequent writers like James Joyce and other naturalists....

• / General Fiction
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A weaver goes to the mart with a divided tapestry, and with half in either hand he walks about telling that whoever possesses one must, perforce, possess the other for the sake of the story. But allegories are out of place in popular editions; they r...

• / General Fiction
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George Moore was an Irish novelist whose works were best known for their realism. In turn, he helped influence subsequent writers like James Joyce and other naturalists....

• / Literary
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

• / General Fiction
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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor ...

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This 1891 novel was greatly admired by James Joyce. Hubert Price, a struggling young playwright with one moderate success under his belt, is bequeathed a legacy by his uncle.  His focus on repeating his theatrical success, and his love for the b...

• / Literary
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...