The Good Soldier - Couverture souple

Ford, Ford Maddox

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1604596996 ISBN 13 : 9781604596991

Editeur : SMK Books, 2012

Synopsis

Set just before World War I, The Good Soldier chronicles the tragedies of the lives of two seemingly perfect couples. The novel is told using a series of flashbacks, it also makes use of the device of the unreliable narrator as the main character gradually reveals a version of events that is quite different from what the introduction leads you to believe. The novel was loosely based on two incidents of adultery and on Ford's messy personal life.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

Whether you know Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier or not, don't miss this reading by Kerry Shale, who varies his performance brilliantly as the story shifts from platitudes to a rollercoaster ride of intimate revelation. Written on the eve of the First World War and satirising the complacency and immorality of the age, the book is an experimental narrative, moving to and fro in time with explanations inserted as if recounted to a friend. 'This is the saddest story I have ever heard' is the opening line, but within seconds we are wondering how on earth it can be as we hear of the impeccable social credentials of the two couples at its core. Give it a few minutes, and you will be agog, uncertain whether to laugh at its first-person narrator's gullibility or cry at the tragic outcome. Poetically resonant and painterly in its word pictures, the book was regarded by Ford as his best. Don't be misled by the studiously ironic title: the only conflict in the story is that between the sexes. --Christina Hardyment, The Times

Biographie de l'auteur

Ford Hermann Hueffer was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic Review, were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature. He was involved in British war propaganda after the beginning of World War I. He worked for the War Propaganda Bureau, with other writers and scholars who were popular during that time. He wrote two propaganda books for Masterman, namely When Blood is Their Argument: An Analysis of Prussian Culture (1915), with the help of Richard Aldington, and Between St Dennis and St George: A Sketch of Three Civilizations (1915). After writing the two propaganda books, he enlisted at 41 years of age into the Welch Regiment on 30 July 1915, and was sent to France, thus ending his cooperation with the War Propaganda Bureau. He spent the last years of his life teaching at Olivet College in Michigan, and died in Deauville, France, at the age of 65.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SMK Books
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1604596996
• ISBN 13: 9781604596991
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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