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Esther Waters (1894)

di George Moore

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One of the great novels of London life and labour in the 1890s, 'Esther Waters' is the story of a single mother struggling against prejudice and injustice. It vividly brings to life a world of horse racing, gambling, and public houses and was groundbreaking in its approach.
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Moore's tale of a "fallen woman" necessarily bears comparison to Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. However, whereas Tess is freed from the stigma of raising an illegitimate child because her boy dies in infancy, in Moore's novel one sees the struggles of a working-class woman who has to raise her child to adulthood. Tess is confronted with some painful choices and ends up paying the ultimate penalty for her one act of determined rebellion and vengeance. With Moore's heroine, Esther, though, we see a woman confronted with very different but equally difficult choices all resulting from her child living. Esther must overcome loss of employment, extreme poverty, and the despised workhouse. The reader gets a real glimpse into the difficulties of a single woman raising an illegitimate child in late Victorian England. Those difficulties notwithstanding, the reader also gets to see the determination of a devoted mother to her son.

George Moore certainly does not rise to the top of the list of inspired writers. He is neither as descriptive nor as elegant a writer as Thomas Hardy; the telling of his tale suffers as a result. As an example, the rape scene in Tess is written with such sublime inspiration as to leave the reader in awe of the act. Moore manages to pass over the deed in a few quick sentences. Further, although Moore talks of Esther's time in the workhouse, he never adequately describes the horrors of the place. The reader can be forgiven for thinking that the hell of these workhouses was not all that bad.

The most striking difference between these two novels comes at the end. In Tess we are confronted with the image of Tess at the end of the hangman's noose after murdering her assailant, but Moore takes Ester to a completely different place. We see her at the end of the book with her former and current employer, Mrs. Barfield, working as a maid at Woodview where the story began. The closing scene is of Esther's son, Jack, coming to visit and embracing his mother. it comes as the fitting end for a woman who had endured such privation but showered such love on her son, Jack, in order to raise him. She is rewarded with his love as he embarks on his own adult life. In this way Esther is triumphant, almost redeemed. As such, George Moore's novel can be read as an uplifting book expounding the virtues of hard work and sacrifice in the service of familial devotion. ( )
  Blythewood | Sep 18, 2023 |
This book really bowled me over. It deserves a place as one of the greatest works of Victorian fiction. I loved the way Moore was able to realistically portray not only a woman but a working-class woman. I wept at her struggle to keep her illegitimate child, shared her determination and felt the difficulty of her choices. Yet it is neither downbeat nor sentimental. A much more true to life portrait of a Victorian girl who bears an illegitimate child than Mrs Gaskell's Ruth (much as I admire and enjoy Mrs G's works). And certainly better than Tess of the D'Urbervilles (but I have never been a big Hardy fan. Thomas or Oliver...) ( )
1 vota PollyMoore3 | Jul 17, 2013 |
799. Esther Waters An English Story by George Moore (read 11 Mar 1965) I was at the time I read this book immersed in 19th century English literature and asked a friend (who subsequ ently went on to obtain a doctorate in the field) for suggestions and he named this book as the book to read by George Moore. I did and think I felt it was well worth reading. ( )
1 vota Schmerguls | Jun 1, 2013 |
Fascinating and disturbing picture of life for poor women in late 19th-century England. Baby-farming and other horrors are vividly portrayed. Were women back then really all that self-sacrificing or is this Victorian stereotyping? Still, heroine is enduring and book is worth reading. ( )
1 vota xine2009 | Jun 13, 2009 |
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Esther Waters is the title which George Orwell declared to be 'far and away the best' of the ten novels which make up Penguin's third series (Penguins numbered 21 to 30) in his 1936 essay Review of Penguin Books. He says of Esther Waters that it was 'written by a man whose fingers were all thumbs and who had not learned some of the most elementary tricks of the novelist...but the book's fundamental sincerity makes its surface faults almost negligible.' Continued
 

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Nome dell'autoreRuoloTipo di autoreOpera?Stato
George Mooreautore primariotutte le edizionicalcolato
Allen, Walter ErnestIntroduzioneautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Hough, GrahamIntroduzioneautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Strimban, JackProgetto della copertinaautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Strimban, RobertProgetto della copertinaautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato

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