Esther Waters: A NOVEL (1894) by George Moore (Original Classics)

Esther Waters (1894) was one of the first English novels to defeat Victorian moral censorship. George Moore's story of a mother's fight for the life of her illegitimate son won Mr Gladstone's approval and was admitted, unaltered, into those bastions of Victorian conformity, the circulating libraries.Esther Waters is forced to leave home and become a servant in a well-to-do household. Seduced in a moment of weakness she has to leave her position and the novel charts her poignant story of poverty and hardship: first the lying-in hospital

Author: George Moore

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Feb 27, 2016

Number of Pages: 224 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1530266807

ISBN-13: 9781530266807