Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d'un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d'origine.

If you had the courage and money to lead a fast life, wouldn't you do so? 'Confessions of a Young Man' is a memoir by Irish novelist George Moore who spent about 15 years in his teens and his 20s in Paris, and later in London as a struggling artist. Moore's 'confessions' are aesthetic. If there's more, you'll find a soul struggling to rid itself of Victorian morality. Of landed gentry, Moore moved from Ireland to Paris hoping to be a painter. He immersed himself in Degas and Manet and discussed Gautier and Baudelaire at his Montmartre haunt until dawn. This memoir was finished in his early 30s after he had decided to become a writer. He first tried his hand at journalism, but he found it stifling: `I longed to give a personal shape to something and this could not be achieved in an article.' His memoir is youthfully all over the place, at times, but its alluring ideas are found on every page. This is a wonderful look into the mind of the younger George Moore. George Augustus Moore was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic and playwright. As a writer he is best known for his contribution to the natural realist genre of literature. He was amongst the first English-language writers to follow in the footsteps of the French realists, especially the writings of Émile Zola were influential in his work. Moore himself went on to influence fellow Irishman, James Joyce. Although Moore's work is often not considered to belong to the mainstream Irish and British literature of his time, he is widely accepted as being one of the first great modern Irish novelists. His works have also been adapted for film and TV such as 'Albert Nobbs' (2011) starring Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska and Aaron Taylor-Johnson; and the 'Esther Waters' TV series from 1977 starring Gabrielle Lloyd, James Laurenson and Alison Steadman.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The director of the Clinic for Radiation Medicine in Moscow, Angelina Gus'kova, was the first person to hear about the Chernobyl accident. She treated patients who were nauseous and weak, with reddened skin, and one who was already vomiting. The diagnosis was typical signs of acute radiation sickness. #2 In the 1950s, the first civilian nuclear power plants started up in the USSR. The director of the radiation medicine clinic at Hospital No. 6, Lyudmila Gus'kova, took over when the deputy minister of health became enraged at the idea of a pamphlet on treating radiation victims. #3 On April 26, 1986, a Saturday morning, seventeen employees of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant were on shift. In carrying out a routine experiment, they turned off the reactor's emergency SCRAM system, which was, in any case, too slow to prevent an accident. The reactor's power surged, and a geyser of radioactive gases into the splendor of the Ukrainian night. #4 The men suffered from infections, nausea, hair loss, hacking coughs, diarrhea, fevers, and, later, intestinal bleeding. Their lungs filled with fluid. Their raw skin blistered and ulcerated. Their minds began to fail them.