The Lake
George Moore
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Description
George Moore's novel appears here in a 1921 William Heinemann edition. Its opening pages carry his dedicatory letter in French. Édouard Dujardin is its addressee. The date is August 17, 1905. Moore confesses a theft in it. Busy correcting proofs in Paris, he stole a title. Dujardin's work in progress, La Source du Fleuve Chrétien, supplied it. A character in Moore's novel bears the stolen name. Ralph Elles never appears but is much talked of. The dedication compensates the larceny.
The letter drifts into memory. Decades of talk about literature and music lie behind them. His Confessions of a Young Englishman appeared in Dujardin's Revue Indépendante. Hours at Fontainebleau and Valvins return to him. No orchestra is needed to explain his poor country's sadness, Moore writes. A single flute on an island in a lake suffices. The epistle sets the key for an Irish priest's story.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | George Moore |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 398 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |