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Memories of a Pre-Raphaelite Youth by Ford Madox Ford
Category: Biography
One of the greatest literary artists in history, Ford Madox Ford's childhood is brought to life in this collection of anecdotes from his many memoirs Ford Madox Ford, best known today for Parade's End and The Good Soldier, was also a very fine memoirist. The grandson of Ford Madox Brown, he grew up surr ...Show more
Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Ford Madox Ford's great masterpiece exploring love and identity during the First World War, in a Penguin Classics edition with an introduction by Julian Barnes. A masterly novel of destruction and regeneration, Parade's End follows the story of aristocrat Christopher Tietjens as his world is shattered ...Show more
Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Parade's End is the great British war novel and Ford Madox Ford's major achievement as a novelist. Originally published as four linked novels between 1924 and 1928, it follows the story of Christopher Tietjens, as his life is shattered by his wife's infidelities and overturned by the mud, blood and dest ...Show more
Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
Category: Accessories
The Great War changes everything. In this epic tale, spanning over a decade, war turns the world of privileged, English aristocrat Christopher Tietjens upside down. It forces him to question everything he holds dear - social order, morality, marriage and loyalty. And it rocks the very foundations of Eng ...Show more
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'This is the saddest story I have ever heard.' Wealthy American John Dowell describes in a disarmingly casual, compellingly intimate manner how he and his wife Florence meet an English couple in a German spa resort. They become friends over the years and gradually the history of their relationships and ...Show more
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
The Good Soldier tells the stories of two outwardly happy couples who meet at a health spa in Germany just before the start of the First World War, and whose loveless, adultery-ridden relationships are strained and gradually disintegrate, with tragic consequences. Drawing inspiration from his personal l ...Show more
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
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 wa ...Show more
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
Category: Classics
This title is presented with an introduction by Zoe Heller. "The Good Soldier" is a brilliant and heart-rending evocation of destructive passion. When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful ...Show more
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
First published in 1915, Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier" begins, famously and ominously, "This is the saddest story I have ever heard." In a nutshell, "The Good Soldier" us the post-mortem of a good-on-paper marriage that much later turned out to be even less than the little the narrator thought of ...Show more
The Good Soldier : A Tale of Passion by Ford Madox Ford
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.' Just before the First World War, two young couples meet in Germany. The seemingly perfect y ...Show more
The Good Soldier (Penguin Classics) by Ford Madox Ford
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Good Soldierby Ford Madox FordTwo married couples find their long, ongoing friendship is severely disrupted when one husband learns that his wife has been the mistress of his British friend for years.We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. M ...Show more
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