1st Edition

The Collected Short Stories of George Moore Vol 4 Gender and Genre

By Ann Heilmann, Mark Llewellyn Copyright 2007
    456 Pages
    by Routledge

    George Moore (1852-1933) was one of the most influential and versatile writers and journalists of the turn of the century. This five-volume, reset critical edition addresses scholarly interest in Moore, making available his generally neglected short story collections.

    Volume 4 A Story-Teller’s Holiday (1928) Introduction A Story-Teller’s Holiday (1928), Volume I [Please note that Moore did not give headings to the different stories, which are used here for better reader orientation. A Leave-Taking, Preface by Ernest Longworth A Train Journey to Ireland: Th e Question of Home Rule (Chapters I–II) The Aftermath of the Easter Rising and the Homeless Cats of Dublin (Chapters III–IV) A Train Journey in Ireland: Memory, Mythology, Reverie, and Reality (Chapters V–VI) Joseph Appley (Chapter VII) Cunningham and his Priest (Chapters VIII–X) In Extremis: Th e Bee in the Railway Carriage and the Nun at the Railway Station (Chapter XI) Westport and Stevenson’s Travelogue (Chapters XII–XV) Alec Trusselby and the Story of the Murrigan (Chapter XVI) Liadin and Curithir (Chapters XVII–XVIII) The Nuns of Crith Gaille (Chapters XVIII–XXIII) Father Scothine and Father Brenainn (Chapters XXIV–XXVI) Moling and Sister Ligach (Chapters XXVII–XXXI) Finding the ‘Right’ Story (Chapter XXXII) The Garden of Eden (Chapters XXXIII–XLIII) A Story-Teller’s Holiday (1928), Volume II Ulick and Soracha (Chapters XLIV–LVII) Dinoll and Crede (Chapter LVIII) Dostoevsky and Turgenev (Chapter LIX) A Final Leave-Taking from Ireland (Chapters LX–LXVI) Contemporary Reception Edwin Muir [Edward Moore], [From] We Moderns: Enigmas and Guesses (1918) James Gibbons Huneker, ‘Ten Books for the Month: George Moore as Folklorist’, Bookman (December 1918) J. S. Watson, Jr, ‘A Story-Teller’s Holiday’, Dial (14 December 1918) Benjamin de Casseres, ‘George Moore’s Uncensored New Book’, Sun (New York) (5 January 1919) ‘New Novels: Ulick and Soracha’, Daily Telegraph (London) (16 July 1926) Arnold Palmer, [From] ‘Mr. George Moore’s Latin Mind’, Sphere (London) (17 July 1926) ‘Ulick and Soracha’, Times Literary Supplement (22 July 1926) [From] ‘Fiction’, Nation and Athenaeum (24 July 1926) John Freeman, ‘The Tale of Ulick and Soracha’, Bookman (August 1926) Richard Church, ‘A Facsimile of the Old Masters’, Spectator (21 August 1926) Herbert L. Matthews, ‘George Moore Spins a Tale of Ireland Long Ago’, New York Times Book Review (19 September 1926) John Eglinton [William K. Magee], ‘Mr. George Moore as a Shanachie’, Dial (October 1926) Theodore Purdy, Jr, ‘An Irish Legend’, Saturday Review of Literature (New York) (27 November 1926) Harry Hansen, [From] ‘Th e First Reader: George Moore, Limited,’ New York World (20 December 1926) Gerald Gould, [From] ‘Mr. Moore and Others’, Observer (London) (25 November 1928) Richard Church, ‘Merlin and Vivien’, Spectator (London) (8 December 1928) ‘A Story Teller’s Holiday’, Times Literary Supplement (13 December 1928) Affable Hawk [Desmond MacCarthy], ‘Current Literature: Books in General’, New Statesman (5 January 1929) John Freeman, ‘A Story-Teller’s Holiday’, Bookman (February 1929) John Eglinton [William K. Magee], ‘George Moore and Holy Ireland’, Dial (New York) (April 1929) Gerald Bullett, ‘George Moore: A Cloistered Genius’, John O’ London Weekly (28 January 1933) Osbert Burdett, [From] ‘George Moore’, London Mercury (March 1933) Appendices Letters by George Moore to Arthur Brentano, 1916–1919 [Cunningham’s Story, From] Salve (1912) ‘Dublin Revisited: Th e Homeless Cats Among the Ruins, by George Moore, the Distinguished Irish Novelist’, Evening News (5 June 1916) ‘A June Trip Th rough Ireland: Ruin and Weed’, by George Moore, Evening News (29 June 1916) Extract from the first the english edition of Ulick and Soracha (1926) Textual Variants Editorial Notes 395

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    Ann Heilmann, Mark Llewellyn