George Moore — Esther Waters: A Novel

London, Walter Scott, Ltd, 1894. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition, second impression of this novel from Irish novelist and short story writer George Moore. Two volumes. First edition. Second impression with publisher's advertisements to the rear and flower in gilt to the front board. Set in England in the early 1870s, the novel follows a pious young woman from a poor working-class family who, while working as a kitchen maid, is seduced by another employee and becomes pregnant. Written by George Augustus Moore, an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. As a naturalistic writer, he was amongst the first English-language authors to absorb the lessons of the French realists, and was particularly influenced by the works of Emile Zola. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Small splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .