The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Brand new hardback as published by The Folio Society and now 'Out of Print'. The book will be delivered in the publisher's undisturbed shrink-wrapping. Condition of both book and slip case is 'New'. The book is bound in cloth with a design by Philip Bannister. There are 240 pages, a Frontispiece and 7 full-page colour illustrations. The book size in inches is 9.0 x 5.75. As to the story, When John Dowell sits down in an English country house to write ¿the saddest story¿ he ever heard, he knows only some of the passionate and tragic events which have passed. Slowly, as he writes, five tangled lives are presented to us. John Dowell and his wife Florence are wealthy, leisured Americans living on the Continent. Their close friends, Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, accompanied by their devoted niece, Nancy Rufford, seem the perfect English family. But behind the Edwardian façade of elegant ease and correctness lurks secret layered upon secret.
Synopsis
The Good Solider: A Tale of Passion by Ford Madox Hueffer (later, Ford Madox Ford) is set just before World War I. The “good solider” of the title is Captain Edward Ashburnman, a retired Indian army veteran, who — along with his wife Leonora — from relationships with two Americans, John and Florence Dowell. The novel follows the unraveling of Ashburman’s and Dowell’s marriages through a series of flashbacks and deals with issues, such as adultery, betrayal, and moral confusion, which often go unmentioned in polite society. The Good Soldier was originally titled The Saddest Story, a reference to the first line: “This is the saddest story I have ever heard.” However, with the onset of the war, the publisher requested a title revision. Ford sarcastically suggested The Good Soldier, as he himself had already enlisted in the war, and the name stuck. Ford left to serve in World War I as an infantry solider later on in 1915, the same year the book was published. The Good Solider is ranked 30th on Modern Library’s list of “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century.
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- Bookseller
- Dartmouth Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3840
- Title
- The Good Soldier
- Author
- Ford Madox Ford
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Folio Society
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- New Folio Society hardbacks;
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Dartmouth Books
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