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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 Continue
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- English Books
- Mass Market Paperback
- ISBN-10: 0553213954
- ISBN-13: 9780553213959
- Publisher: Bantam Classics
- Pub date: May 01, 1991
- Dimensions: 1097 mm x 710 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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the saddest story...
“The Good Soldier” is about two couples who seem to be "good people" leading lives of wealth and culture in the early 20th century.
Beneath the gilded surface they are however seething with passion in its worst forms (guilt, jealousy, treachery). This could have been yet another feuilleton, h ... (continue)
“The Good Soldier” is about two couples who seem to be "good people" leading lives of wealth and culture in the early 20th century.
Beneath the gilded surface they are however seething with passion in its worst forms (guilt, jealousy, treachery). This could have been yet another feuilleton, however in Ford's hands, this becomes a masterpiece anticipating, or going in parallel to, Joyce, Proust and Lawrence Durrell.
The preface is a little bit a waste of time and can be easily skipped, since it deals with Ford's bio and "internal" details without any attempt at a correlation of Ford's achievement to his past, contemporary and future colleagues' work.
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