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George Moore

Born

in Moore Hall, near Lough Carra (County Mayo), Ireland

February 24, 1852

Died

January 21, 1933

Website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Moore_(nove...

Genre

Fiction, Memoir

Influences

Ivan Turgenev, Émile Zola ...more

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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 who lived at Moore Hall in Carra, County Mayo. 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 literat ...more

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	Esther Waters 3.71 avg rating — 974 ratings — published 1894	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Albert Nobbs by George Moore, Glenn Close (Foreword) 3.55 avg rating — 680 ratings — published 1918 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Drama In Muslin 3.65 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 1886	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Confessions of a Young Man 3.21 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 1886 — 577 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Untilled Field 3.58 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1903 — 162 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Mummer's Wife by George Moore, Anthony Patterson (Editor) 3.73 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1885 — 167 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lake 3.41 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1905 — 161 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heloise and Abelard 4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1921 — 64 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Homesickness 3.50 avg rating — 22 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memoirs of My Dead Life really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1906 — 177 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by George Moore (?)

“We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination.”
― George Moore

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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

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“Reality can destroy the dream, why shouldn’t the dream destroy reality.”
― George Moore

tags: inspirational

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Washington Square by Henry James, 1880. 223 pp

48 votes, 23.4%

The Symposium by Plato, -380, 90 pp

45 votes, 22.0%

Cleopatra by H. Rider Haggard, 1889, 278 pp

32 votes, 15.6%

The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo, 1869, 672 pp

30 votes, 14.6%

The Crime of Father Amaro by Eça de Queirós, 1875, 471 pp

25 votes, 12.2%

The Prelude by William Wordsworth 1805 704pp

13 votes, 6.3%

Esther Waters by George Moore, 1894, 432pp

12 votes, 5.9%

205 total votes

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