Moore, George. Lewis Seymour And Some Women. First Edition. New York, Brentano’s, 1917. 14cm x 20.5cm. 320 pages. Original hardcover with gilt lettering. Very good condition, only minor signs of external wear, mild foxing to edges.

George Moore, often better known as GM, was born in Carrnacon, near Claremorris, Co Mayo, in 1852, the eldest son of Irish Party MP George Henry Moore. He spent significant periods of his life in Paris and Dublin, and died in London in 1933 – and the importance of each of those locations resounds repeatedly in his writings.
He was the author of a truly massive oeuvre: 65 titles include prose, drama and early poetry but many exist in multiple editions for he was a perfectionist and a tireless reviser. It has always been widely accepted that Moore, visual art disciple and discriminating art critic, was to a great degree responsible for popularising the Impressionists’ art in Britain. Literary historians credit him with playing the key role in bringing French literary modernism to English readers, especially in the 1880s and 1890s.
Many social, literary, historical, psychological and artistic grounds influence reception and acknowledgment of GM’s work. He did not, and does not, fit in to any country’s confining literary formats or categories; he resolutely refused limitation. He constantly changed his focus and interest, altered his style, and was often far ahead of prevailing taste. So, just as the English often regarded Moore as never quite respectable (too French, too Irish, too Catholic, and too daring), bourgeois Ireland followed that pattern, with the variation that Moore was not considered sufficiently Irish or Catholic. Literary envy and jealousy also played a part in influencing how his persona and oeuvre would be viewed. [Mary Pierse, The Irish Times]

• Keywords: Irish Literature · Literature · Modern Literature
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 90623AB

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