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    Confessions of a Young Man
    Confessions of a Young Man
    Confessions of a Young Man
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    Confessions of a Young Man

    By George Moore

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    The story follows a young man named Dayne mirroring author's own life experiences in bohemian art scene of emerging Parisian impressionism. These true confessions are often described as the most significant documents of the passionate revolt of English literature against the Victorian tradition. It is in a sense the history of an epoch. It represents one of the great discoveries of English literature —the discovery of human nature.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUrban Romantics
    Release dateJan 11, 2018
    ISBN9781787243811
    Confessions of a Young Man
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    George Moore

    George Moore (1852-1933) was an Irish poet, novelist, memoirist, and critic. Born into a prominent Roman Catholic family near Lough Carra, County Mayo, he was raised at his ancestral home of Moore Hall. His father was an Independent MP for Mayo, a founder of the Catholic Defence Association, and a landlord with an estate surpassing fifty square kilometers. As a young man, Moore spent much of his time reading and exploring the outdoors with his brother and friends, including the young Oscar Wilde. In 1867, after several years of poor performance at St. Mary’s College, a boarding school near Birmingham, Moore was expelled and sent home. Following his father’s death in 1870, Moore moved to Paris to study painting but struggled to find a teacher who would accept him. He met such artists as Pissarro, Degas, Renoir, Monet, Mallarmé, and Zola, the latter of whom would form an indelible influence on Moore’s adoption of literary naturalism. After publishing The Flowers of Passion (1877) and Pagan Poems (1881), poetry collections influenced by French symbolism, Moore turned to realism with his debut novel A Modern Lover (1883). As one of the first English language authors to write in the new French style, which openly embraced such subjects as prostitution, lesbianism, and infidelity, Moore attracted controversy from librarians, publishers, and politicians alike. As realism became mainstream, Moore was recognized as a pioneering modernist in England and Ireland, where he returned in 1901. Thereafter, he became an important figure in the Irish Literary Revival alongside such colleagues and collaborators as Edward Martyn, Lady Gregory, and W. B. Yeats.

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      This memoir, first published in 1886, when Moore was about 34, tells of his time in Paris and of his taking up residence in London. He early turns me off by telling of his hatred of the Faith into which he was born and of the country of his birth. But in the later part of the book he talks interestingly of 19th century writers, including Henry James, Thomas Hardy, R. L. stevenson, George Meredith, R. D. Blackmore,and others. He has little good to say of Hardy though I suppose his opinion may have changed in the light of Hardy's final novels. The only other thing by Moore I have read is Esther Waters (read 11 Mar 1965) so now I think I have read the two of his books generally deemed his most important works.

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