The Passing of the Essenes

By George Moore

Published in 1930.

Number 73 out of an edition of 775.

Signed by the author.
George Moore (1852 - 1933) novelist, short story writer, dramatist, poet, autobiographer, biographer, essayist and editor, was one of the most significant figures in Irish and English literature between the 1880s and 1930s. He published over sixty books: collections of poems, novels, short stories plays, autobiographies, and criticism, many of them in revised editions.

A three act Biblical play regarding the Essenes, a mystic Jewish sect during the Second Temple period. The characters include Essene monks, a young shepherd called Jacob and Jesus of Nazareth.

154mm x 324mm

R1,250

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