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The Lake

Author
George Moore
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
6 hours 37 minutes
ISBN
9781802566000
Published
6 May 2025
Imprint
Urban Romantics
  • Love Triangle
  • Friendship
  • Mysterious Woman
  • Irish Lake
  • Desire
  • Betrayal
  • Unfulfilled Passions
  • Poetic Prose
  • Human Relationships
  • Societal Expectations

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Description

Father Oliver Gogarty faces the lake and the memory of Nora Glynn, the schoolteacher his severity helped exile from the parish. Guilt, longing, and a priest’s uneasy conscience move through Moore’s Irish drama of desire and faith. The water becomes the place where he must decide who he is and what he can still become. Spoken as when still water refuses to let a man lie to himself about love and vocation.

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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