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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)

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