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Susan’s Bookshelves: Esther Waters by George Moore

I made a recent promise to myself, and to readers of this blog, that I would read some George Moore. So I have.  He was born in Ireland in 1852 and died in London in 1933 – a near contemporary of Thomas Hardy (1840-1928). Moore was 42 when Esther Waters was published in 1894, the […]

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