Ave
In a spoof 1894 Booker Prize contest in 1994, Esther Waters won over Kipling’s The Jungle Book and Conan Doyle’s The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. George Augustus Moore (1852-1933), absentee landlord of vast estates in Ireland, failed painter, critic, and one who explored the stream of consciousness technique well before James Joyce, was the author. In Ave (1911), Salve (1912), and Vale (1914), a trilogy that formed Moore’s autobiographical Hail and Farewell, he lambasted almost everyone connected with the Irish Literary Revival movement, including W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory. This is the first edition of Ave.