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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.; Reprint edition (30 Nov 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0486419215
  • ISBN-13: 978-0486419213
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.2 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 481,058 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"It is excellent to see a Broadview edition of this seminal modernist work." --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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One of the most important works of twentieth-century British literature, The Good Soldier addresses the lives and interrelationships between two couples: one American, one British. A tragicomic novel of manners, in which John Dowell narrates the disintegration of both his own and another marriage, the work's depiction of passion and intrigue offers an ironic reading of Edwardian-era values.

The Broadview edition features the text of the first edition of the novel published by John Lane and The Bodley Head in 1915. It also includes: other writings by Ford Madox Ford ("On Heaven," excerpts from Henry James: A Critical Study, "On Impressionism," and "Techniques"); contemporary reviews; and Ezra Pound’s obituary of Ford Madox Ford. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Sad Story, Amusingly Told, 30 April 1999
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This review is from: The Good Soldier (Twentieth Century Classics) (Paperback)
Terrific book, extremely advanced for its time, though it does show Jamesian influences. It starts out: "This is the saddest story I've ever heard." Quite loosely written, with an ingenuously lazy wit, and it's a very complex story about two couples, ironically narrated by an American man, who is a splendid combination of naive and penetrating psychological insights, who is trying to document and piece together the steps leading to the suicide of Edward, his English friend, who in spite of the fact that he was an excellent fellow he was unable to keep his hands off whatever women came his way, and fall madly in love with the least appropriate damsels. I suspect the English fellow is a self-portrait, for the narrator is very gauche, and innocent, and not at all like Ford.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Simple greatness, 8 Nov 2002
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This review is from: The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Penguin Modern Classics) (Paperback)
This deceptively simple, heart-breaking story will change the way you think about novels, writing and the canon of English literature. It is a masterpiece of the first order: simply told by a narrator who frequently doubts his ability to tell his own story it is a study of sadness and loss that is as near to "The Great Gatsby" as anything written in this country. It should not be missed under any circumstances: the reward of reading it is enormous.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I love you with my ford, 19 Feb 2000
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This review is from: The Good Soldier (Twentieth Century Classics) (Paperback)
An astonishing study of repressed passions and for me the birthplace of that 20th Century favourite the unreliable narrator. I really wanted to add that, important as Henry James may be, it was Ford's collaboration with Conrad that is at the root of the truly innovative narrative structure of this book.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing and dull
I know this is supposed to be a classic, but I didn't think much of it, I must admit. It's really one of the dullest and most muddled books I've ever read, though it did have two... Read more
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Hugely enjoyable, sophisticated and nuanced tale of marital betrayal and treachery in the English upper classes, told by an unreliable narrator.
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3.0 out of 5 stars The First Modern Narrator?
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