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The Good soldier

Originally published in 1915, this novel is considered to be Ford Madox Ford's masterpiece. This is a story about the complex relationships between two couples, one English and the other American; and the growing awareness of the narrator of the intrigues and passions behind their overly Edwardian facade.

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  • "Originally published in 1915, this novel is considered to be Ford Madox Ford's masterpiece. This is a story about the complex relationships between two couples, one English and the other American; and the growing awareness of the narrator of the intrigues and passions behind their overly Edwardian facade."@en
  • "Originally published in 1915, this novel is considered to be Ford Madox Ford's masterpiece. This is a story about the complex relationships between two couples, one English and the other American; and the growing awareness of the narrator of the intrigues and passions behind their overly Edwardian facade."
  • "This enigmatic modern classic details the adulterous entanglements of two couples on seemingly normal, friendly terms. The truth of these liaisons emerges, retrospectively and in fragments, from the viewpoint of the innocent and unsuspecting John Dowell. Dowell's perpetual failure to grasp and understand the nature of the infidelities of the people around him makes this a compelling and intriguing first-person narrative."@en
  • "The Good Soldier is set just before World War I and chronicles the tragedy of Edward Ashburnham, the soldier to whom the title refers, and his own seemingly perfect marriage and that of two American friends. The novel is told using a series of flashbacks in non-chronological order, a literary technique that formed part of Ford's pioneering view of literary impressionism..."
  • "The Good Soldier is a story about the complex social and sexual relationships between two couples--one English, one American--and the growing awareness of American narrator John Dowell of the intrigues and passions behind their orderly Edwardian fȧade. It is Dowell's attitude--his puzzlement, uncertainty, and the seemingly haphazard manner of his narration--that makes the book so powerful and mysterious. In Ford's brilliantly woven tale, nothing is quite what it seems..."
  • "On the face of it, Captain Edward Ashburnham's lifewas unimpeachable. Behind the mask where passion seethes the captain's "good" life was rotting away."@en
  • "A masterpiece of literary modernism, 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 of the intrigues and passions behind their orderly Edwardian facade. Handsome, wealthy, and a veteran of service in India, Captain Edward Ashburnham appears to be the ideal "good soldier" and the embodiment of English upper-class virtues ..."@en
  • ""Two couples, two marriages; both seemingly perfect, both falling apart. Beneath the surface gentility of the American John Dowell with his wife Florence and the landed grace of Edward and Leonora lie fictions and deceit. There are secret desires, hidden power-games, suicides and madness. Everyone is hiding something; even the narrator can't be trusted"--Publisher provided."@en
  • ""Two couples, two marriages; both seemingly perfect, both falling apart. Beneath the surface gentility of the American John Dowell with his wife Florence and the landed grace of Edward and Leonora lie fictions and deceit. There are secret desires, hidden power-games, suicides and madness. Everyone is hiding something; even the narrator can't be trusted"--Publisher provided."
  • "Handsome and wealthy, Captain Edward Ashburnham appears to be the perfect soldier. But he embodies qualities much more sinister, and his capacity for betrayal of those close to him knows few bounds."@en
  • "On the face of it Captain Edward Ashburnham's life was unimpeachable. Behind the mask where passion seethes the captain's "good" life was rotting away."@en
  • "This is a story about the complex social and sexual relationships between two couples--one English, one American--and the growing awareness of American narrator John Dowell of the intrigues and passions behind their orderly Edwardian facade. It is Dowell's attitude--his puzzlement, uncertainty, and the seemingly haphazard manner of his narration--that makes the book so powerful and mysterious."@en
  • "This is a story about the complex social and sexual relationships between two couples--one English, one American--and the growing awareness of American narrator John Dowell of the intrigues and passions behind their orderly Edwardian facade. It is Dowell's attitude--his puzzlement, uncertainty, and the seemingly haphazard manner of his narration--that makes the book so powerful and mysterious."
  • "On the face of it, Captain Edward Ashburnham's life was unimpeachable. But behind the mask where passion seethes, the Captain's "good" life was rotting away."
  • "A masterpiece of literary modernism, 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 of the intrigues and passions behind their orderly Edwardian facade."@en
  • "A masterpiece of literary modernism, 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 of the intrigues and passions behind their orderly Edwardian facade."
  • "Beneath the surface gentility of the American John Dowell with his wife Florence and the landed grace of Edward and Leonora lie fictions and deceit. There are secret desires, hidden power-games, suicides and madness. Everyone is hiding something; even the narrator can't be trusted."
  • "Handsome, wealthy, and a veteran of service in India, Captain Edward Ashburnham appears to be the ideal "good soldier" and the embodiment of English upper-class virtues. But for his creator, Ford Madox Ford, he also represents the corruption at society's core. Beneath Ashburnham's charming, polished exterior lurks a soul well-versed in the arts of deception, hypocrisy, and betrayal. Throughout the nine years of his friendship with an equally privileged American, John Dowell, Ashburnham has been having an affair with Dowell's wife, Florence. Unlike Dowell, Ashburnham's own wife, Leonora, is well aware of it. When The Good Soldier was first published in 1915, its pitiless portrait of an amoral society dedicated to its own pleasure and convinced of its own superiority outraged many readers. Stylistically daring, The Good Soldier is narrated, unreliably, by Dowell, through whom Ford provides a level of bitter irony. Dowell's disjointed, stumbling storytelling not only subverts linear temporality to satisfying effect, it also reflects his struggle to accept a world without honor, order, or permanence. Called the best French novel in the English language, The Good Soldier is both tragic and darkly comic, and it established Ford as an important contributor to the development of literary modernism."@en

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