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The Good Soldier
New Edition
Ford Madox Ford
Edited by Max Saunders
320 pages
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196x129mm
978-0-19-958594-6
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Paperback
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06 September 2012
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- Ford's masterpiece, a riveting story, and one of the most compelling examples of early Modernism, The Good Soldier is here presented in a new edition by one of the leading Ford scholars.
- Includes Ford's crucial essay 'On Impressionism', written contemporaneously with the novel and which sheds important light on understanding it.
- Introduction locates the novel as a key work of Modernism, relating it to Ford's other work. It addresses the nature of literary Impressionism, its relationship with the psychological realism of the characters, sexuality, the historical context and attitudes to Englishness.
- Includes a chronology of the novel's main events.
- Up-to-date bibliography and notes providing further contextual background.
New to this edition - Introduction by leading Ford scholar Max Saunders.
- Notes, chronology, up-to-date bibliography.
- New chronology of the events in the story.
- Ford's key essay, 'On Impressionism' in an appendix.
- Newly set text, using the British first edition.
'This is the saddest story I have ever heard.'
Wealthy American John Dowell describes in a disarmingly casual, compellingly intimate manner how he and his wife Florence meet an English couple in a German spa resort. They become friends over the years and gradually the history of their relationships and the passions that lie behind the orderly Edwardian façade are unveiled. Dowell is the archetypal 'unreliable narrator', and his casual revelations are both unexpected and explosive.
A masterpiece of early Modernism and a virtuoso performance of literary skill, Ford's 'Tale of Passion' reflects contemporary interests in
psychology, sexuality, and the New Woman. Its portrayal of the destruction of a civilized elite anticipates the cataclysm of the First World War, which erupted while Ford was finishing the book. This new edition includes Ford's important essay 'On Impressionism', which sheds valuable light on his artistic technique.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much
more.Readership: Fiction readers and lovers of Edwardian literature and classic twentieth-century literature; students of the novel, Modernism, fin de siécle.
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Ford Madox Ford Edited by Max Saunders, Professor of English, King's College LondonMax Saunders is the author of the highly acclaimed Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life (2 vols, OUP 1996) and Self Impression: Life-Writing, Autobiografiction, and the Forms of Modern Literature (OUP, 2010). He has edited a range of Ford's poetry and prose for Carcanet and written widely on modern literature. He is the general editor of International Ford Madox Ford Studies.
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"[a] masterpiece" - Jake Kerridge, The Sunday Telegraph
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