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George Moore is a large figure in Irish letters, but a curious one.Everyone knows of him, few know about him. A biography of Moore is a huge and fascinating opportunity to explore an entire cultural world. Frazier does this, never forgetting that his main task is to narrate the abundant life of Moore himself. To do so he has seen papers in Ireland, the US, Paris and London that no other scholar has used, enabling him to reconstruct the details of Moore's romantic life. Having had affairs with Pearl Craigie and Olive Schreiner, among others, Moore settled into a long and secret liaison withanother man's wife, Lady Maud Cunard whose daughter, Nancy Cunard, was very probably Moore's child, as Frazier here reveals for the first time. ... Read more

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Deeply satisfying and moving; ranks near Ellmann and Edel.
Unlike Yeats, Joyce, or James, George Moore did not have a strong and confident sense of his own identity, and has in consequence remained arather dim and shadowy figure on the literary landscape of his time.Frazier has succeeded uncannily in getting inside Moore's skin, almost tothe point of understanding him better than he understood himself. For thefirst time the many divergent facets of Moore's career come together in acoherent and gripping narrative. We see that though his enthusiasms,literary loyalties, and amorous propensities were as changeable as theclouds above Lake Carra, Moore was tenacious in a Quixotic quest for truthand freedom. His witty, indiscreet conversation, still so fresh in thepages of Hail and Farewell, Avowals, and Conversations in Ebury Street, wascalculated to puncture many a pompous ego. A master of ridicule, he wasrepaid in kind. But a lifetime of struggle against British philistinism,Irish parochialism, and French cliquism cannot be written off as mereclowning. Moore often let himself down, yet his achievement as a wholedeserves the epithet "heroic." Had Irish Catholics andNationalists, in particular, listened to his enlightened critique, theymight have spared themselves a century of repression, mystification, andviolence. Frazier illuminates Moore's sexuality (especially hisrelationships with Pearl Craigie and Lady Cunard) with Starr-likethoroughness. This serves to enhance our appreciation of his fiction:masterpieces such as Muslin, The Lake (1921 version), and In SingleStrictness take on a new glow as we discover the erotic humus from whichthey spring, while the lesser or flawed works take on new interest asfragments of a great confession. Frazier has buried the George Moore ofstale gossip and caricature and replaced it with a portrait asdistinguished as Manet's on the front cover -- a portrait securely groundedin wide-ranging historical research. ... Read more

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Title: The asymmetrical George Moore.(George Moore: 1852-1933) (book review)
Author: Richard Tillinghast
Publication: New Criterion (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2002
Publisher: Foundation for Cultural Review
Volume: 20Issue: 5Page: 30(8)

Article Type: Book Review

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This digital document, covering the life and work of George Augustus Moore, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 2000 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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See the young man of refined mind in a ball room! He is leaning against the woodwork in a distant doorway, he scarcely knows what to do with himself; and he is now striving to interest himself in the conversation of a group of men twice his age. I will not say he is shunned; but neither the matrons nor the young girls make any advances towards him. The young girls looking so sweet--in the oneness of their fresh hair, flowers, dresses, and glances--are being introduced, are getting up to dance, and the hostess is looking round for partners. ... Read more

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A grand piano was indispensable in Frank's surroundings, both for its appearance in the studio and the relaxation it afforded in the various interludes. Several journeys to London were made before the lamps to be used were determined on (a modern design was essential), and the brass fittings to hang candles from the rafters required still more delicate and cautious consideration; at last it was decided to have none. ... Read more

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It seemed to Kate that the play was never going to begin, so long had she been kept waiting. She did not consult Hender, but possessed her soul in patience till a thin young man came up from under the stage, pushing his glasses higher on his beak-like nose. He took his place on the high stool; he squared his shoulders; looked around; waved his stick. The sparkling marriage chorus, with the fanciful peasants and the still more fanciful bridegroom in silk, the bright appearance of Clairette at the window, and the sympathy awakened by her love for the devil-may-care revolutionary poet seduced Kate like a sensual dream; and in all she saw and felt there was a mingled sense of nearness and remoteness, an extraordinary concentration, and an absence of her own proper individuality. ... Read more