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Publisher: Alma

Author: Ford Madox Ford

ISBN: 9781847494955

Year: 2015

Format: Paperback

Classics, Historical fiction

The Good Soldier by
Ford Madox Ford

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$ 250.00 mxn

The Good Soldier by

Ford Madox Ford

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"Ford was the only Englishman who stood alongside the great ‘moderns’"

Peter Ackroyd

Summary

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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