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The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion is a 1915 novel by the British writer Ford Madox Ford. It is set just before World War I, and chronicles the tragedy of Edward Ashburnham and his seemingly perfect marriage, along with that of his two American friends.
"A Tale of Passion," as its subtitle declares, The Good Soldier relates 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.
The Good Soldier is a proto-Modernist novel by English author Ford Madox Ford that was first published in 1915. Its pitiless portrait of an amoral late-Edwardian society dedicated to its own pleasure and convinced of its own superiority outraged many readers.
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The Good Soldier, tragic novel by Ford Madox Ford, published in 1915. The novel relates events in the lives of John Dowell, a Philadelphian from a “good” family, and his wife, Florence, who supposedly suffers from heart disease.
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Sep 6, 2012 · The Good Soldier is Ford Madox Ford's masterpiece, a riveting story and one of the most compelling examples of early Modernism: a virtuoso performance of how to use an "unreliable...
Dec 14, 2008 · For all good soldiers are sentimentalists—all good soldiers of that type. Their profession, for one thing, is full of the big words, courage, loyalty, honour, constancy. And I have given a wrong impression of Edward Ashburnham if I have made you think that literally never in the course of our nine years of intimacy did he discuss what he ...
Mar 7, 2010 · It ostensibly tells the story of two seemingly perfect couples, Americans John and Florence Dowell, and upper-class English army captain Edward Ashburnham (the good soldier of the title) and...
