Esther Waters (Everyman's Library) - Softcover

Moore, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0460873261 ISBN 13: 9780460873260

Publisher: Everyman Paperback Classics, 1994

Synopsis

Seduced, then abandoned by her feckless lover, Esther must raise her child alone. Employed first as a wet-nurse by heartless Mrs. Rivers, then enslaved by miserly Mrs. Bingley, Esther bears her trials supported by faith and the love of her child. When she accidentally meets the father of her son, now a rich man who wants to marry her, it seems that her fight for happiness is finally at an end.

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About the Author:

George Augustus Moore (24 February 1852 – 21 January 1933) was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. Moore came from a Roman Catholic landed family who lived at Moore Hall in Carra, County Mayo. He originally wanted to be a painter, and studied art in Paris during the 1870s. There, he befriended many of the leading French artists and writers of the day. As a naturalistic writer, he was amongst the first English-language authors to absorb the lessons of the French realists, and was particularly influenced by the works of Émile Zola. His writings influenced James Joyce, according to the literary critic and biographer Richard Ellmann, and, although Moore's work is sometimes seen as outside the mainstream of both Irish and British literature, he is as often regarded as the first great modern Irish novelist.

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman Paperback Classics
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0460873261
• ISBN 13: 9780460873260
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Laurie Hilary