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Celibates

Author
George Moore
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
8 hours 47 minutes
ISBN
9781802566048
Published
7 May 2025
Imprint
Urban Romantics
  • George Moore
  • romance
  • family
  • society
  • love
  • realism
  • impressionism
  • art
  • bohemian
  • revolt

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Moore’s three novellas follow Mildred Lawson, John Norton, and Agnes Lahens through desire, vocation, and the refusal of ordinary marriage. Passion and social pressure arrive in separate keys. Spoken as when celibacy is less a vow than a wound, and each life chooses its own unfinished shape before the world can name it.

Author

George Moore (1852–1933) was the Irish novelist who brought French naturalism into English fiction and never quite stopped arguing with Ireland about it. Trained among the painters and writers of Paris, he wrote of art, desire, and the stubborn facts of ordinary life — servants, theatres, and consciences under pressure. Esther Waters remains his most durable novel: a story of a working woman's endurance told without Victorian flinch.

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