George Augustus Moore
Male : Novelist &
prose Writer. Wealthy upbringing, inheriting his father's 12,000 acre
estate in Co Mayo. Became a Protestant and preferred to live in
Sussex
Nationality : Irish
Place of Birth : Moore Hall, Ballyglass, Co Mayo
Date of Birth : 1852 Date of Death : 1933 Age : 81
Education : Oscott College, Birmingham & Ecole des Beaux Arts & Academie Julian, Paris
1878-1890
Worldliness (c1874) - Play
Flowers of Passion (1878 Provost & Co, London) - verse
Martin Luther (1879) - Play, with Bernard Lopez
Pagan Poems (1881)
A Modern Lover (1883) - 1st Novel
A Mummers Wife (1885 Viztelly)
Literature at Nurse or Circulating Morals (1885 Viztelly, London)
A Drama in Muslin (1886)
Parnell and His Ireland (1886 in French) (1887)
A Mere Accident (1887 Viztelly)
Confessions of a Young Man (1888) - autobiographical novel
Spring Days : A Realistic Novel (1888 Viztelly)
Mike Fletcher (1889)
1891-1900
Vain Fortune (1891 Henry & Co, London)
Impressions and Opinions (1891 David Nutt)
Modern Painting (1893)
The Strike at Arlingford (1893) - Play
Esther Waters : A Novel (1894 Walter Scott)
[Filmed in 1947]
Celibates (1895 Walter Scott) - ss
Evelyn Innes (1898 Fisher Unwin) (1898 Appleton NY) (1929 Ernest Benn)
The Bending of the Bough : A Comedy in 5 Acts (1900 Fisher Unwin)
1901-1920
Sister Teresa (1901 Fisher Unwin)
The Untilled Field (1903 Fisher Unwin) - ss
The Lake (1905 Heinemann)
Memoirs of My Dead Life (1906 Heinemann)
Reminiscences of the Impressionist Painters (1906) - pamphlet
The Apostle : A Drama in Three Acts (1911 Maunsel, Dublin)
Hail and Farewell
(Autobiography)
Ave (1911 Heinemann)
Salve (1912)
Vale (1914)
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The Brook Kerith : A Syrian Story (1916 Werner Laurie) - 250 signed & numbered
Lewis Seymour and Some Women (1917 Heinemann)
[A Re-writing of The Modern Lover published in 1883]
A Story Teller's Holiday (1918 London) - ss. 1000 signed
Avowals (1919 PP in London for Subscribers) - 1000 signed
Esther Walters (1920 PP, London) - 750
1921-1925
Heloise and Abelard (1921 PP in London) - 2 vols. 1500 signed
The Coming of Gabrielle : A Comedy (1921 Boni & Liveright, NY) - 895 numbered
In Single Strictness (1922 Heinemann) (1922 NY) - ss
Carra Edition of Moore's Works (1922-4 Boni & Liveright) - 21 vols
plus two further volumes in 1925 & 1926
The Apostle : A Drama (1923 Heinemann) - Signed Ltd Ed
The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis & Chloe (1924 Heinemann) - 1280 Signed
Conversations in Ebury Street (1924 London)
Uniform edition of Moore's Works (1924-33 Heinemann) - 20 vols
(Ed) Pure Poetry : An Anthology (1924 Nonesuch Press) - 1250
Hail and Farewell (1925 Heinemann)
1926-1928
Ulick and Soracha (1926 Nonesuch Press) - 1250 signed. Stephen Gooden
(1926 Boni & Liveright, NY)
Peronnick the Fool (1926 Rudge, NY) - 785. Designed by Bruce Rogers
Celibate Lives (1927) - ss
The Making of an Immortal (1927 Bowling Green Press, NY) - Signed Ltd Ed 1240
The Making of an Immortal (1927 NY) (1928) - play
Peronnik the Fool (1928 Hours Press, France) - 200 signed
1929-1930
Letters from George Moore to Ed Dujardin 1886-1922 (1929 Crosby Gaige, NY)
Conversations with George Moore (1929 Benn) - with Geraint Goodwin. 110 signed by both
The Brook Kerith (1929 Macmillan, London & NY) - 375 signed by Moore & Stephen Gooden
Aphrodite in Aulis (1930 Heinemann) - 1825 signed
The Passing of the Essenes : A Drama in 3 Acts (1930 Heinemann) - 775 signed
After 1931
The Talking Pine (1931 Hours Press, Paris) - 500 (1948 Edwin B Hill, Tempe)
A Communication to My Friends (1933 Nonesuch Press) - 1000
Peronnik the Fool (1933 Harrap) - 525 signed by Moore & Stephen Gooden
READING
John Freeman : A Portrait of George Moore in a Study of His Work
(1922 Werner Laurie) - 600 signed
Humbert Wolfe : George Moore (1931 Harold Shaylor)
Joseph Hone : The Life of George Moore (1936 Macmillan, NY)
Joseph Hone : The Moores of Moore Hall (1939 Cape)
Nancy Cunard : GM - Memories of George Moore (1956 Hart-Davis)
Edwin Gilcher : A Bibliography of George Moore (1970 Illinois UP)
Richard Cave : A Study of the Novels of George Moore (1978)
Tony Gray : A Peculiar Man - A Life of George Moore (1996 Sinclair-Stevenson £20)