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Book Description
"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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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)Plucino☮ said on Feb 10, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback
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- English Books
- Paperback 352 Pages
- ISBN-10: 019283620X
- ISBN-13: 9780192836205
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Pub date: May 13, 1999
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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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)