George Moore
Moore was the pioneer of English naturalism who brought the methods of Zola to the English novel and the first major Irish novelist of the modern period. His autobiographical trilogy Hail and Farewell is a masterpiece of comic self-portrait.
Works
- Esther WatersNaturalist novel of a servant girl's struggle with seduction and motherhood
- A Mummer's WifeWoman abandons respectability to join theatrical life with tragic consequences
- Confessions of a Young ManAutobiographical account of a young man's artistic awakening and libertinism
- The Brook Kerith
- Hail and FarewellThree-part autobiography chronicling artistic and personal transformations
- Heloise and AbelardRetelling of the medieval love story between philosopher and nun