George Moore occupies a central position in the transition period between Victorian and modern literature. He challenged many of the ruling assumptions of his day about the subjects and methods suitable to the novel. Because of his success in winning...

George Moore's writing holds an important place between Victorian and modernist literature. While scholars recognize that 1880-1920 was a period of transition, some are still uncomfortable with Moore. A man of letters who worked in many literary...

Primarily remembered as novelist, short-story writer, and autobiographer, George Moore nonetheless wrote plays for more than fifty years. As with his other work, his plays reflect the many literary and artistic movements to which he was attracted with...

Champion jockey and trainer George Moore was the champion jockey given the evocative nickname "Cotton Fingers" for his gossamer touch with half-ton racehorses, as well as being known as Australia's Lester Piggott. Such accolades were well deserved, yet the boy from Mackay on...

BRIAN Moore, who died in the final year of the twentieth century is increasingly seen as one of the most perceptive novelists of that troubled era. He was born in Belfast on 25th August 1921 and was raised in a devout Catholic family,...

In the following excerpt, Eakin and Gerber provide an overview of Moore's short stories and maintain that the concept of "in minor keys" seems to be his "way of designating a story in which he implies a significant moral idea marked by a subdued or underwritten ending."

Kennelly is an Irish poet, critic, novelist, and educator. In the following essay, which was first published in England in 1968, he perceives the theme of loneliness as integral to Moore's short fiction.

Newell is an American critic and educator. In the following essay, he discusses the similarities of thirteen stories he classifies as "the artist stories, " focusing on Moore's perception of the artist in Irish society.