Ford Madox Ford
The Good Soldier
Paperback
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform July 21, 2016)
, 1st Edition
Events in The Good Soldier unfold just before World War I and chronicle 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 opens with the famous line, “This is the saddest story I have ever heard.” The narrator explains that for nine years he, his wife Florence and their friends Ashburnham and his wife Leonora had an ostensibly normal friendship while Edward and Florence sought treatment for their heart ailments at a spa in Nauheim, Germany.
As it turns out, nothing in the relationships or in the characters is as it first seems.
In The Good Soldier, one of the biggest selling books in history, Ford Madox Ford paved the way for over a century of thriller writers and film-makers who would go on to use the idea of the unreliable narrator to create mystery and suspense.
The Good Soldier is a masterpiece of early twentieth-century fiction.
- ISBN
- 1535428562 / 9781535428569
- Pages
- 153
- Weight
- 7.5 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 0.35 in.
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