· The Good Soldier was conceived by Ford Madox Ford as the summation of his career as an admired and influential Edwardian novelist, his "last book", and Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. · So begins Ford Madox Ford’s novel The Good Soldier, which was first published in and has remained in print ever since. It is said to be based on Ford’s own messy personal life. Set in the Edwardian era and spanning nine years ( to ), it explores the complex and intertwined relationships between two wealthy and seemingly perfect. · I n , The Good Soldier was reissued as the first volume of a uniform edition of Ford Madox Ford's works. In a dedicatory letter to Stella Ford, the novelist explained that his "tale of Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins.
So begins Ford Madox Ford's novel The Good Soldier, which was first published in and has remained in print ever since. It is said to be based on Ford's own messy personal life. Set in the Edwardian era and spanning nine years ( to ), it explores the complex and intertwined relationships between two wealthy and seemingly perfect. The Good Soldier was conceived by Ford Madox Ford as the summation of his career as an admired and influential Edwardian novelist, his "last book", and a middle-aged writer's traditional riposte. Ford Madox Ford was the author of over 60 works: novels, poems, criticism, travel essays, and reminiscences. His work includes The Good Soldier, Parade's End, The R Ford Madox Ford, born Ford Hermann Hueffer, was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic Review, were instrumental in.
The Good Soldier opens with John Dowell, the narrator, informing the reader that "this is the saddest story [he] ever heard." His story, he explains will be about the nine-year acquaintance that he and his wife Florence had with another couple, Edward and Leonora Ashburnham. Because this novel is comprised of Dowell's thoughts as he writes them, the plot is not chronological; it shifts back and forth between past events and Dowell's current reflections on those events. In fact, Ford’s original title was “The saddest story I have ever heard” but, his publisher was not enamored and so it is kept in the opening sentence. Edward Ashburnham is a British soldier - and by all accounts a ‘good’ one and the central character in the story. The Good Soldier was conceived by Ford Madox Ford as the summation of his career as an admired and influential Edwardian novelist, his "last book", and a middle-aged writer's traditional riposte.
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