Confessions of a Young Man - Couverture rigide

Moore, George

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0773500979 ISBN 13 : 9780773500976

Editeur : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1972

Synopsis

Book by Moore George

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

CONFESSIONS OF A YOUNG MAN I My soul, so far as I understand it, has very kindly taken colour and form from the many various modes of life that self-will and an impetuous temperament have forced me to indulge in. Therefore I may say that I am free from original qualities, defects, tastes, etc. What is mine I have acquired, or, to speak more exactly, chance bestowed, and still bestows, upon me. I came into the world apparently with a nature like a smooth sheet of wax, bearing no impress, but capable of receiving any; of being moulded into all shapes. Nor am I exaggerating when I say I think that I might equally have been a Pharaoh, an ostler, a pimp, an archbishop, and that in the fulfilment of the duties of each a certain measure of success would have been mine. I have felt the goad of many impulses, 1 have hunted many a trail; when one scent failed another was taken up, and pursued with the pertinacity of instinct, rather than the fervour of a reasoned conviction. Sometimes, it is

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Biographie de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Date d'édition: 1972
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0773500979
• ISBN 13: 9780773500976
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 266
• Éditeur: Dick Susan
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible