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The Good Soldier

A Tale of Passion

By Ford Madox Ford

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| Paperback | 9780192836205

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"A Tale of Passion," as its subtitle declares, The Good Soldier relates the complex social and sexual relationships between two couples, one English, one American, and the growing awareness by the American narrator John Dowell of the intrigues and passions behind their orderly Edwardian
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"A Tale of Passion," as its subtitle declares, The Good Soldier relates the complex social and sexual relationships between two couples, one English, one American, and the growing awareness by the American narrator John Dowell of the intrigues and passions behind their orderly Edwardian
facade. It is the attitude of Dowell, his puzzlement, uncertainty, and the seemingly haphazard manner of his narration that make the book so powerful and mysterious. Despite its catalogue of death, insanity, and despair, the novel has many comic moments, and has inspired the work of several
distinguished writers, including Graham Greene. This is the only annotated edition available.

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  • The odd couples

    The Good Soldier is an odd and maybe even unique book. That it is a masterpiece, almost a perfect novel, comes as a repeated surprise even to readers who have read it before. In a dedicatory letter to the second edition written some 10 years after th ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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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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  • Read this for a Lit class in College. Its a great portrait of war, very well written with some great imagery. Good for discussion.

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