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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 — 980 ratings — published 1894 — 725 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
	Albert Nobbs by George Moore, Glenn Close (Foreword) 3.55 avg rating — 683 ratings — published 1918	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 3.66 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 1886 — 76 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
	Confessions of a Young Man 3.19 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 — 163 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) 3.69 avg rating — 45 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 3.45 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1905 — 148 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 4.30 avg rating — 20 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 — 178 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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The Praise of Folly by Erasmus, 1511, 229 pp

40 votes, 22.6%

The Malleus Maleficarum (The Witch Hammer) by Heinrich Kramer, 1485, 323 pp

35 votes, 19.8%

Gösta Berling's Saga by Selma Lagerlöf, 1891, 368 pp

31 votes, 17.5%

Manon Lescaut by Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles, 1731, 192pp

26 votes, 14.7%

Sybil, or the Two Nations by Benjamin Disraeli, 1845, 412 pp

24 votes, 13.6%

Esther Waters by George Moore, 1894, 432 pp

11 votes, 6.2%

Lucky Per by Henrik Pontoppidan, 1898, 558 pp

10 votes, 5.6%

177 total votes

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