The Good Soldier (Norton Critical Editions)

Ford, Ford Madox; Stannard, Martin [Editor]

ISBN 10: 0393966348 / ISBN 13: 9780393966343

Edité par W. W. Norton & Company, 1995

N° de réf. du vendeur 0393966348-4-26650952

Synopsis :

This Norton Critical Edition includes: 15 contemporary reviews; a chapter on literary impressionism with critiques by Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Ford himself and others; critical essays that provide a variety of perspectives on the book; and Ford's letter to Stella Ford, published in 1927.

Biographie de l'auteur: Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939) 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 is now best remembered for The Good Soldier and the Parade's End tetralogy. The Good Soldier, a novel set just before World War I which chronicles the tragic lives of two "perfect couples" using intricate flashbacks. In a "Dedicatory Letter to Stella Ford” that prefaces the novel, Ford reports that a friend pronounced The Good Soldier “the finest French novel in the English language!” Ford was involved in the British war propaganda after the outbreak of World War I. He worked for the War Propaganda Bureau managed by C. F. G. Masterman with other writers and scholars who were popular in those years, such as Arnold Bennett, G. K. Chesterton, John Galsworthy, Hilaire Belloc and Gilbert Murray. Ford 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, Ford enlisted in the Welsh Regiment on 30 July 1915, and was sent to France, thus ending his cooperation with the War Propaganda Bureau. His combat experiences and his previous propaganda activities inspired his tetralogy Parade's End (1924–1928), set in England and on the Western Front before, during and after World War I. Ford also wrote dozens of novels as well as essays, poetry, memoir and literary criticism, and collaborated with Joseph Conrad on two novels, The Inheritors (1901) and Romance (1903). His novel Ladies Whose Bright Eyes (1911, extensively revised in 1935)[1] is, in a sense, the reverse of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Good Soldier (Norton Critical Editions)
Éditeur : W. W. Norton & Company
Date d'édition : 1995
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Fair