The Good Soldier - Couverture souple

Ford, Ford Madox

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1840226536 ISBN 13 : 9781840226539

Editeur : Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

The Good Soldier (Wordsworth Classics)

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Biographie de l'auteur

One of the primary reasons for the works of Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) being undervalued was his own endless self-promotion truly a legend in his own mind which tended to produce the opposite effect with his critics. In truth, The Good Soldier is one of the great modern novels, ranking alongside Conrad, Joyce and James, and his fine tetralogy which makes up Parade's End has been the subject of a recent TV adaptation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1840226536
• ISBN 13: 9781840226539
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible