The Good Soldier: Introduction by Alan Judd and Max Saunders (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) - Hardcover

Ford, Ford Madox

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679406654 ISBN 13: 9780679406655

Publisher: Everyman's Library, 1991

Synopsis

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 this title

Review:

"The narrative casts a mesmeric spell... intelligent, beautifully written, heartfelt and true, and a great book" (Sunday Times)

"I would rather have written Ford Madox Ford's novel than all the books I have written. After reading it a dozen times, I still find a mystery at its heart... an exercise in elegance and a triumph of structure. I am always imitating it and always failing. The prose makes my heart ache with envy" (Ruth Rendell Guardian)

"An astounding novel" (The Times)

"Sometimes the best presents come in small packages...masterful" (Daily Telegraph)

"A central figure, artistically and influentially, in the modern movement...a masterpiece of Impressionism, as well as of intricate plotting, technical manipulation and powerful irony" (Guardian)

Book Description:

A brilliant and heart-rending evocation of destructive passion.

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0679406654
• ISBN 13: 9780679406655
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 239