Complex sentence: These stories were influenced by Turgenev's "A Sportsman's Sketches", a book recommended to Moore by W. K. Magee, a sub-librarian of the National Library of Ireland, and had earlier suggested that Moore "was best suited to become Ireland's Turgenev".
Split into simpler sentences: These stories were influenced by Turgenev's "A Sportsman's Sketches", a book recommended to Moore by W. K. Magee. Magee was a sub-librarian of the National Library of Ireland, and had earlier suggested that Moore "was best suited to become Ireland's Turgenev".