George Moore recalls how, as a rich young Irishman, he went to Paris to become a painter, failed, and turned to literature. He records studios, cafés and salons, his worship of Manet, Zola, Balzac and the Symbolists, his cat and python, and his scorn for Victorian morality, all in an extravagantly candid and self-mocking voice.
A witty landmark of the aesthetic movement and an early portrait of the artist as a young man. Download the free EPUB.