ISBN10: 1514333929, ISBN13: 9781514333921, [publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform] Softcover
[Dallas, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2015]

ISBN10: 0901072826, ISBN13: 9780901072825, [publisher: Colin Smythe Ltd] Softcover The Lake is George Moore’s most poetic and perfectly crafted novel. It tells of a priest’s loss not of faith, but of commitment to the principles fostered in him during his training and his discovery of a more fulfilling religion that celebrates instinct as being, if rightly understood, man’s true mode of communion with his soul. Father Gogarty’s parish is in a remote district of Mayo beside Lough Carra and his new philosophy is worked out during his long walks and rides round the lake where he learns how the changing quality of his perceptions of the landscape about him can reveal the fluctuating moods of that ‘underlife’ of his psyche that shapes his being. The Lake is a novel about self-discovery through guilt (Gogarty fears he has brought about the death of a parishioner through vigorously denouncing her way of life from the altar) and atonement in renouncing a creed which demands that a man continually repress his capacity for joy. But it is also a novel about the satisfactions of living close to nature in Ireland; the atmosphere of the Mayo countryside, the play of light on mountain, wood and lake, the rich historical associations in every church, castle or abbey ruin and farmstead are evoked with a rare skill, subtly illuminating the relationship that Moore takes as his theme between place and the Irish personality. If in studying the motives that compel his priest ...

ISBN10: 1907245022, ISBN13: 9781907245022, [publisher: Myna Classics 2009-09] Softcover
[Wallingford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2009]

ISBN10: 1015590160, ISBN13: 9781015590168, [publisher: Legare Street Press 2022-10] Softcover
[Wallingford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2022]

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform 2015 Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 148 p.

ISBN10: 133413202X, ISBN13: 9781334132025, [publisher: Forgotten Books] Softcover New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
[Fairford, GLOS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2018]

Forgotten Books 4/24/2018 12: 00: 00 AM Softcover PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.

ISBN10: 0905473965, ISBN13: 9780905473963, [publisher: Wolfhound Press (Rep of Ireland, Dublin] Softcover 140pp, paperback ; Octavo
[Llandrindod Wells, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1982]