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A Short Biography of George Augustus Moore

Author Name:

George Augustus Moore

Born As:

Other Names:

George Augustus Moore

Born:

24 Feb 1852

Died:

21 Jan 1933




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Novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist                          
Selected Works:

Flowers of Passion - 1878
Martin Luther: A Tragedy in Five Acts - 1879
Pagan Poems - 1881
A Modern Lover - 1883
A Mummer's Wife - 1885
Literature at Nurse - 1885
A Drama in Muslin - 1886
Confessions of a Young Man - 1886
A Mere Accident - 1887
Parnell and His Island - 1887
Spring Days - 1888
Mike Fletcher - 1889
Impressions and Opinions - 1891
Vain Fortune London - 1891
Modern Painting - 1893
The Strike at Arlingford London: Walter Scott, 1893
Esther Waters - 1894
Celibates London - 1895
Evelyn Innes London - 1898
The Bending of the Bough - 1900
Sister Theresa - 1901
The Untilled Field - 1903
The Lake London - 1905
Memoirs of My Dead Life - 1906
The Apostle: A Drama in Three Acts - 1911
Hail and Farewell - 1911, 1912, 1914
The Apostle: A Drama in Three Acts - 1911
Elizabeth Cooper - 1913
Muslin - 1915
The Brook Kerith: A Syrian Story - 1916
Lewis Seymour and Some Women - 1917
A Story-Teller's Holiday - Cumann Sean-eolais na hEireann - privately printed - 1918
Avowals - Cumann Sean-eolais na hEireann - privately printed - 1919
The Coming of Gabrielle - Cumann Sean-eolais na hEireann - privately printed - 1920
Heloise and Abelard - Cumann Sean-eolais na hEireann - privately printed - 1921
In Single Strictness - 1922
Conversations in Ebury Street - 1924
Pure Poetry: An Anthology - 1924
The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe - 1924
Daphnis and Chloe, Peronnik the Fool - 1924
Ulick and Soracha - 1926
Celibate Lives - 1927
The Making of an Immortal - 1927
The Passing of the Essenes: A Drama in Three Acts - 1930
Aphrodite in Aulis - 1930
A Communication to My Friends - 1933
Diarmuid and Grania: A Play in Three Acts Co-written with W.B. Yeats, Edited by Anthony Farrow, - 1974

Letters:

Moore Versus Harris Detroit - privately printed - 1921
Letters to Dujardin - 1929
Letters of George Moore - 1942
Letters to Lady Cunard Ed. Rupert Hart-Davis. - 1957
George Moore in Transition Ed. Helmut E. Gerber - 1968                          
Mother 
Father George Henry Moore                          
                          
The Brook Kerith, 1916 book saw Moore once again embroiled in controversy. It was based on the supposition that a non-divine Christ did not die on the cross but instead was nursed back to health. Jesus eventually travelled to India to find wisdom.