Description
2020 Reprint of the 1915 Edition. Ford's 1915 novel is set just before World War I and chronicles the tragedy of Edward Ashburnham, the soldier to whom the title refers, and his seemingly perfect marriage plus that of his 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. Ford employs the device of the unreliable narrator to great effect as the main character gradually reveals a version of events that is quite different from what the introduction leads the reader to believe. The novel was loosely based on two incidents of adultery and on Ford's messy personal life.
Using pre-First World War Europe as its stage, The Good Soldier is the story of Edward Ashburnham, his wife Leonora, and their friends, John and Florence Dowell. The eponymous Good Soldier, Edward embodies upper-class English values but behind closed doors carries on a long-running affair with Florence. When Florence's husband, John, discovers the affair, he sets in motion a series of events both tragic and unavoidable.
Author: Ford Madox Ford
Publisher: Martino Fine Books
Published: 03/17/2020
Pages: 156
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.36d
ISBN13: 9781684224418
ISBN10: 1684224411
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Family Life | Marriage & Divorce
- Fiction | Romance | General
- Fiction | Classics
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