George Moore

Lewis Seymour and Some Women George Moore

Modern Lover was the book of a young man who, in a moment of inspiration, hit upon an excellent anecdote, and being without literary skill to unfold it, devised a strange text out of his memories of Balzac, Zola, and Goncourt. This is a severe but just appreciation of my first prose work, formed after looking through it with a view to republication in the collected edition which Messrs. Brentano sare publishing. Extraordinary, I said to myself, is the power of the anecdote; though imperfectly written and illustrated with characters only faintly sketched, this first book has survived the vicissitudes of thirty-five years. And I fell to thinking of a story that I heard from Granville Barker when he lay in bed in Dublin recovering from typhus fever: how, cycling, one day, he had overtaken a tall, gaunt man at the foot of a hill Furnivall, who, being old, had stepped down from his machine, and Barker, desirous of talk, stepped down from his; and pushing their machines in front of them, they discoursed literature, probably one of Barker splays something that he had written or was minded to write.
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