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Celibates

Author
George Moore
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
280 pages
ISBN
9781787243910
Published
11 January 2018
Imprint
Urban Romantics
  • George Moore
  • romance
  • family
  • society
  • love
  • realism
  • impressionism
  • art
  • bohemian
  • revolt

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Description

Three novellas of people who will not settle into ordinary marriage: Mildred Lawson, John Norton, and Agnes Lahens. Desire, vocation, and social pressure collide as Moore watches celibacy and passion from three different angles. Intimate studies of choice when the expected wedding never quite arrives and the heart still wants what it wants.

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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