Confessions of a Young Man
by George Moore
Category: Authors, Irish

A memoir by 30-year old Irish novelist and bohemian George Moore (1852-1933). It is an frank account, of an Irish expatriate's unconventional life as an artist in Paris and London during the "fin-de-siecle". The author describess of drinking absinthe in Parisian cafes with the founders of Impressionism - Manet, Degas, Monet and Pissarro - before anyone in England had heard of them.