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The Good Soldier

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099540670

  • Length: 272  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 191g

  • RRP: £8.99

The Good Soldier

A brilliant and heart-rending evocation of destructive passion.

When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister and their influence leads John into a tragic drama that threatens to destroy everything he cares about.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZOE HELLER

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099540670

  • Length: 272  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 191g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • The narrative casts a mesmeric spell... intelligent, beautifully written, heartfelt and true, and a great book

    Sunday Times

  • I would rather have written Ford Madox Ford's novel than all the books I have written. After reading it a dozen times, I still find a mystery at its heart... an exercise in elegance and a triumph of structure. I am always imitating it and always failing. The prose makes my heart ache with envy

    Ruth Rendell, Guardian

  • An astounding novel

    The Times

  • Sometimes the best presents come in small packages...masterful

    Daily Telegraph

  • A central figure, artistically and influentially, in the modern movement...a masterpiece of Impressionism, as well as of intricate plotting, technical manipulation and powerful irony

    Guardian

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About the Author

Ford Madox Ford

Ford Madox Ford, born Ford Hermann Hueffer in 1873, in Surrey, published over 80 books during his writing career. His novels include The Inheritors, Romance, The Fifth Queen and The Good Soldier, and autobiographical works, Return to Yesterday, It was the Nightingale and The March of Literature. In 1915, Ford Madox Ford enlisted in the army and served as an infantry soldier in the First World War. Parade’s End was based on his personal experiences of war. It was published in four parts between 1924 and 1928. Ford Madox Ford died in Deauville, France, in 1939.

Ford Madox Ford

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