Description:
A new critical edition of Confessions of a Young Man (1888) by Irish novelist George Moore.
Brief description: Matthew Creasy is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow.
Review Quotes:
'A welcome chance for readers to become acquainted with a largely forgotten text of one of Ireland's most influential Irish revival and pre-revival writers. [...] An outstanding scholarly version of Moore's intergeneric text.'
- Graham Price, Volupté, 8.2 (2025), pp. 212-17
'[A] fine new critical edition of Confessions in its version of 1888 - the first for fifty years'
- Emer Nolan, '"I am feminine, morbid, perverse" The youthful confessions of an Irish Decadent', Times Literary Supplement, 20 February 2026