The Good Soldier
A Tale of Passion
$19.98
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
19 June 2007
Summary
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The Dowells, a wealthy American couple, have been close friends with the Ashburnhams for years. Edward Ashburnham, a first-rate soldier, seems to be the perfect English gentleman, and Leonora his perfect wife, but beneath the surface their marriage seethes with unhappiness and deception. Our only window on the strange tangle of events surrounding Edward is provided by John Dowell, the husband he deceives. Gradually Dowell unfolds a devastating story, in which eve…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141441849 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141441844 |
| Author: | Ford Madox Ford, David Bradshaw |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 19 June 2007 |
| Weight: | 193g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 128mm x 200mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Audience Age: | 14-18 |
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Ford Madox Ford
Ford Madox Ford was born Ford Hermann Hueffer in Kent in 1873. In 1915 he published The Good Soldier, and in the same year he enlisted in the army, serving as an infantry officer. Parade’s End, the culmination of his experiences during the First World War, was published in four parts between 1924 and 1928. He moved to Paris in 1922 and founded the Transatlantic Review, whose contributors included James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. He died in Deauville, France in 1939.
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