Homesickness

by George Moore

Unknown Binding

About the author

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 literature, he is as often regarded as the first great modern Irish novelist.

Reviews

[Zookswag · Rating 4 out of 5]

What of the man who is home sick yet sick of home, tossed by his yearnings between the Bowery in New York and a small village in Cork, Ireland, who makes and leaves new friends, and abandons his betrothed in the process, and maintains this home sickness into his final years. This is that story.

[Ray LaManna · Rating 4 out of 5]

A tale of immigrants and the new world. The Old World still holds some sway also.

[Jack · Rating 4 out of 5]

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