Gm: Memories Of George Moore
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
From the inner circles of early twentieth-century Bohemian Europe, a unique and intimate portrait emerges — GM: Memories of George Moore is Nancy Cunard's vivid, personal tribute to the celebrated Irish novelist, poet, and art critic George Moore, one of the most influential and iconoclastic literary figures of his era. Written by the celebrated heiress, activist, and poet Cunard — herself a remarkable figure of the modernist avant-garde — the memoir chronicles her long friendship with Moore, capturing his wit, eccentricities, and towering intellect through a series of richly textured recollections that place the reader directly into the salons and studios of a vanishing world. Cunard writes with the authority of a true insider, presenting Moore not as a distant monument of letters but as a living, contradictory, and endlessly fascinating man whose pronouncements on art, literature, and life carried the full weight of a singular genius. Her prose style is elegantly impressionistic, blending anecdote with critical insight in a manner that illuminates both her subject and herself, making this as much a document of a remarkable friendship as it is a record of a literary age. Published by Rupert Hart-Davis in 1956, this rare volume stands as an irreplaceable primary source for anyone drawn to the cultural world that shaped modernism — and to the question of what it truly means to know a great writer.
Author: Nancy Cunard
Format: Hardback
Published: 1956, Rupert Hart-Davis
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
From the inner circles of early twentieth-century Bohemian Europe, a unique and intimate portrait emerges — GM: Memories of George Moore is Nancy Cunard's vivid, personal tribute to the celebrated Irish novelist, poet, and art critic George Moore, one of the most influential and iconoclastic literary figures of his era. Written by the celebrated heiress, activist, and poet Cunard — herself a remarkable figure of the modernist avant-garde — the memoir chronicles her long friendship with Moore, capturing his wit, eccentricities, and towering intellect through a series of richly textured recollections that place the reader directly into the salons and studios of a vanishing world. Cunard writes with the authority of a true insider, presenting Moore not as a distant monument of letters but as a living, contradictory, and endlessly fascinating man whose pronouncements on art, literature, and life carried the full weight of a singular genius. Her prose style is elegantly impressionistic, blending anecdote with critical insight in a manner that illuminates both her subject and herself, making this as much a document of a remarkable friendship as it is a record of a literary age. Published by Rupert Hart-Davis in 1956, this rare volume stands as an irreplaceable primary source for anyone drawn to the cultural world that shaped modernism — and to the question of what it truly means to know a great writer.