The good soldier : a tale of passion / Ford Madox Ford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Penguin twentieth-century classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Friendship--Germany--Bad Nauheim--Fiction.

Friendship.

Married people--Germany--Bad Nauheim--Fiction.

Married people.

Adultery--Germany--Bad Nauheim--Fiction.

Adultery.

Middle class--Germany--Bad Nauheim--Fiction.

Middle class.

Germany--Bad Nauheim.

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

228 pages ; 20 cm.

Manufacture:

([between 1990 and 1999?] printing)

Place of Publication:

London : Penguin Books, 1946.

Summary:

'A Tale of Passion', as its sub-title declares, The Good Soldier tells of the complex social and sexual relationships between two couples, one English, one American, and the growing awareness by the American narrator John Dowell of the intrigues and passions behind their orderly Edwardian facade. It is the attitude of Dowell, his puzzlement and uncertainty, and the seemingly haphazard manner of his narration that make the book so powerful and mysterious. Ford called it 'the only novel of mine that I considered at all to count' and it has perplexed and delighted commentators since its publication in 1915. The novel has many comic moments, despite its catalogue of death, insanity, and despair, and has been read as both a comedy and a tragedy. It has inspired the works of many later, distinguished writers.

ISBN:

0140180818

9780140180817

OCLC:

38851702

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