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THE APOSTLE

A Drama In Three Acts

Written by George Moore and published by Maunsel and Co. Ltd., Dublin/ John W. Luce and Co., Boston. Copyright, 1911. The book was printed by Maunsel in Dublin, but the Luce imprint is at the bottom of the spine. No statement of printing or edition, although no subsequent printings are noted on the copyright page. It is the first American edition.

THE APOSTLE is the story of Christ and Paul meeting in an Essene monastery twenty-five years after the Crucifixion. Christ did not die on the cross, in this story. Moore says in his Prefatory Letter, “The idea was not new to me that Christ had not died on the cross; a very old legend tells that he preached after the Crucifixion in India; and I had read, too, that he had been supposed by many to be an Essene monk. ‘Why, then,’ I asked myself as I stood before John Eglinton [another Irish writer and friend of Moore], ‘should not Christ have returned to his monastery, having been cured of his wounds at the house of Joseph of Arimathea? Why should not Paul, after a day’s preaching amid the Palestinian hills, have knocked at the door of that monastery? What a wonderful meeting that would have been!”

Moore was at the end of his time in Dublin in 1911 and was very unhappy with the influence and arrogance of the Catholic church in Ireland. He had declared himself to be a Protestant several years before and was on the outs with his brother and most of the rest of his family.<

From Wikipedia:
George Augustus Moore (24 February 1852 – 21 January 1933) was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. Moore came from a Roman Catholic landed family who lived at Moore Hall in Carra, County Mayo. He originally wanted to be a painter, and studied art in Paris during the 1870s. There, he befriended many of the leading French artists and writers of the day.
As a naturalistic writer, he was amongst the first English-language authors to absorb the lessons of the French realists, and was particularly influenced by the works of Émile Zola. His writings influenced James Joyce, according to the literary critic and biographer Richard Ellmann, and, although Moore's work is sometimes seen as outside the mainstream of both Irish and British literature, he is as often regarded as the first great modern Irish novelist.

8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches--100 pages

CONDITION:
This hard-cover book is in near very good condition. There is no dustjacket. The purplish cloth cover is clean, but shows some wear at the corners and spine ends. The wear at the spine ends is a bit more that I would like for a full very good. Deckled page edges (the book was bound without trimming the edges). The interior is excellent with no names, marks, underlining, tears or odor. The paper is a bit toned with age, but not brittle. The hinges and binding are very good with no loose or missing pages.

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