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Esther Waters

Author
George Moore
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
12 hours 30 minutes
ISBN
9781802565966
Published
5 May 2025
Imprint
Urban Romantics
  • Victorian England
  • Working Class
  • Love
  • Betrayal
  • Societal Judgment
  • Resilience
  • Adversity
  • Morality
  • Social Class
  • Determination

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Kitchen-maid Esther faces seduction, a child, racing-stable ruin, and the grind of keeping her dignity. Working-class grit without soft focus. Spoken as Moore when a woman’s courage is her only inheritance.

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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