George Moore (novelist) Summary

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 an... Read more

George Moore's critical works occupy, as Helmut E. Gerber has noted, the crucial position between the essentially social and moral criticism of Matthew Arnold and John Ruskin, on the one hand, and the... Read more

In the the following review, Watson faults the insincerity of Moore's A Story-Teller's Holiday. In A Story-Teller's Holiday, George Moore's latest and nearest approach t... Read more

In the following essay, Cronin surveys the major themes of The Untilled Field. The strange origins of George Moore's seminal collection of short stories, The Untilled Field, reflect the writ... Read more

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... Read more

In the following essay on The Lake, Malkan finds that the protagonist's search for personal fulfillment in the face of existential monotony is tied to his self-absorption and renunciation of so... Read more

In the following essay, the critic provides a laudatory review of In Single Strictness. Mr. George Moore's revised volume In Single Strictness is a book of short stories, all of which have o... Read more

Duffus was an American novelist, critic, and nonfiction writer. In the following favorable review, he provides a thematic and stylistic analysis of Celibate Lives. The enlightened few have been rol... Read more

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 shor... Read more

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 pe... Read more