TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ford,Ford Madox
AU  - Stannard,Martin
TI  - The good soldier: authoritative text, textual appendices, contemporary reviews, literary impressionism, biographical and critical commentary 
SN  - 0393966348 (pbk.) :
AV  - PR6011.O53 G5 1995
PY  - 1995///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton
KW  - Ford, Ford Madox,
KW  - Married people
KW  - Germany
KW  - Bad Nauheim
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Middle class
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Adultery
KW  - British
KW  - Bad Nauheim (Germany)
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-401)
N2  - 'A Tale of Passion', as its sub-title declares, 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 John Dowell of the intrigues and passions behind their orderly Edwardian facade. It is the attitude of Dowell, his puzzlement and uncertainty, and the seemingly haphazard manner of his narration that make the book so powerful and mysterious. Ford called it 'the only novel of mine that I considered...at all to count' and it has perplexed and delighted commentators since its publication in 1915. The novel has many comic moments, despite its catalogue of death, insanity, and despair, and has been read as both a comedy and a tragedy. It has inspired the works of many later, distinguished writers, including Graham Greene
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