Sara Haslam, Open University
"It is excellent to see a Broadview edition of this seminal modernist work."
--This text refers to an alternate
Paperback
edition.
Product Description
With an Introduction and Notes by Sara Haslam, Department of English, The Open University
The Good Soldier is a masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction, an inspiration for many later, distinguished writers, including Graham Greene. Set before the First World War, it tells the tale of two wealthy and sophisticated couples, one English, one American, as they travel, socialise, and take the waters in the spa towns of Europe. They are 'playing the game', in style. That game has begun to unravel, however, and with compelling attention to the comic, as well as the tragic, results the American narrator reveals his growing awareness of the sexual intrigues and emotional betrayals that lie behind its façade.
About the Author
Kenneth Womack and William Baker are, respectively, professors at Pennsylvania State University at Altoona and Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.
