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The Good Soldier

A Tale of Passion

By Ford Madox Ford
Introduction by David Bradshaw
Notes by David Bradshaw

By Ford Madox Ford
Introduction by David Bradshaw
Notes by David Bradshaw

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Dec 18, 2007 | ISBN 9780141441849

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
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About The Good Soldier

When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister and their influence leads John into a tragic drama that threatens to destroy everything he cares about.

Ford Madox Ford wrote The Good Soldier, the book on which his reputation most surely rests, in deliberate emulation of the nineteenth-century French novels he so admired. In this way he was able to explore the theme of sexual betrayal and its poisonous after-effects with a psychological intimacy as yet unknown in the English novel.

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About Ford Madox Ford

Ford Madox Ford was born Ford Hermann Hueffer in England in 1873. In 1919 he changed his name to Ford Madox Ford in honor of his grandfather, the Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown, whose biography he had written. Ford was… More about Ford Madox Ford

Product Details

Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

Paperback | $14.00
Published by Penguin Classics
Dec 18, 2007 | 256 Pages | ISBN 9780141441849
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