The Good Soldier

Critics

• 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

2 Reviews

• 3 people find this helpful

  

  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.

  Is this helpful?

  Plucino said on Feb 10, 2009 | Add your feedback

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

  Is this helpful?

  karattack said on Jan 4, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

Book Details

• Rating:
  (47)
  • 5 stars
  • 4 stars
  • 3 stars
  • 2 stars
  • 1 star
• English Books
• Hardcover 220 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0554271397
• ISBN-13: 9780554271392
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, Others and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Libros en Español, Livros em Português

Groups with this in collection

• The Novel 100 (106)

Prices Change currency & sellers