The Good Soldier: Introduction by Alan Judd and Max Saunders Hardcover - 1991
by Ford Madox Ford; Introduction by Alan Judd; Introduction by Max Saunders
About this book
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.
Summary
From the rear cover
Ford Madox Ford wrote The Good Soldier the book on which his reputation most surely rests, in deliberate emulation of the nieteenth-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.
From the jacket flap
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.
First Edition Identification
John Lane of the Bodley Head first published The Good Soldier in the UK in 1915. The first edition is bound in brick red cloth and has the same date listed on the title page as the copyright page.
Details
- Title The Good Soldier: Introduction by Alan Judd and Max Saunders
- Author Ford Madox Ford; Introduction by Alan Judd; Introduction by Max Saunders
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 2d ptg.
- Pages 239
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Everyman's Library, New York
- Date 1991-10-15
- Features Bibliography
- ISBN 9780679406655 / 0679406654
- Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.16 x 0.88 in (21.08 x 13.11 x 2.24 cm)
- Reading level 1040
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Central Europe
- Cultural Region: Germany
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Adultery - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91052977
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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