{"title":"Ford Madox Ford","description":"Ford Madox Ford was born Ford Hermann Hueffer in England in 1873. In 1919 he changed his name to Ford Madox Ford in honor of his grandfather, the Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown, whose biography he had written. Ford was well known for both his fiction and his criticism. He founded two influential journals, The English Review in 1908 and The Transatlantic Review in 1924, in which he championed many of the leading modernist writers of the day. His most famous novels include the tetralogy Parade's End and The Good Soldier, which are still ranked among the greatest literary works of the twentieth century. Ford died in 1939, at the age of 65, in France.","products":[{"product_id":"good-soldier-paperback","title":"Good Soldier - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eA landmark of 20th-century literature, a novel of forbidden and repressed passions, both sexual and moral.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the fashionable German spa town Bad Nauheim, two wealthy, fin de siecle couples -- one British, the other American -- meet for their yearly assignation. As their story moves back and forth in time between 1902 and 1914, the fragile surface propriety of the pre -- World War I society in which these four characters live is ruptured -- revealing deceit, hatred, infidelity, and betrayal. \"The Good Soldier\" is Edward Ashburnham, who, as an adherent to the moral code of the English upper class, is nonetheless consumed by a passion for women younger than his wife -- a stoic but fallible figure in what his American friend, John Dowell, calls \"the saddest story I ever heard.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101535047903,"sku":"9780679722182","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/I443fsZQf99780679722182.webp?v=1781071676"},{"product_id":"the-good-soldier-hardcover","title":"The Good Soldier - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Good Soldier\u003c\/i\u003e (1915) is a novel by Ford Madox Ford. Set just before the First World War, the novel is superficially the story of Edward Asburnham, a man with a reputation for philandering. Considered an important proto-modernist novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Good Soldier\u003c\/i\u003e employs a fragmented narrative told by an unreliable narrator who appears at times as distant, gossipy, voyeuristic, and even vindictive. Praised as one of the greatest English-language novels of the century, \u003ci\u003eThe Good Soldier\u003c\/i\u003e remains Ford's most popular work. John Dowell has secrets. Married for nine years to a serially unfaithful woman, friends with a man who falls in love at first sight with every woman he meets, he lives an exciting life without ever doing much himself. As he sorts through his memories, revealing the sordid details of his loved ones' private lives, it becomes clear that Dowell is haunted by tragedy. His psychological state, shaped by years of jealousy and paranoia, reveals the soul of a man without faith, thrown from one betrayal to the next by his manipulative wife. But how could he fail to see what was right under his nose? Can a man truly be as innocent as Dowell claims to be? \u003ci\u003eThe Good Soldier\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece of English fiction that poses timeless questions regarding friendship, fidelity, and sexuality. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Ford Madox Ford's \u003ci\u003eThe Good Soldier\u003c\/i\u003e is a classic work of British literature reimagined for modern readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is the saddest story I have ever heard.\" With this claim, one of the strangest and most acclaimed novels of the twentieth century begins. Marriages crumble, friends prove unknowable, and faith lies forgotten. Broken by jealousy, paranoia, and tragedy, John Dowell looks back on his life in search of meaning. \u003ci\u003eThe Good Soldier\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel by Ford Madox Ford.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101589147871,"sku":"9781513133423","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/VHN5WFRxaE0rUlZwNS9hL2taUmVYdz09.webp?v=1781071780"},{"product_id":"parades-end-full-tetralogy-some-do-not-no-more-parades-a-man-could-stand-up-and-last-post-paperback","title":"Parade's End (Full Tetralogy: Some Do Not, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up, and Last Post) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNot just about the war but about a whole era and its destruction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"quite simply, the best fictional treatment of war in the history of the novel\"-Mary Gordon. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: \u003cem\u003eParade's End\u003c\/em\u003e is one of them.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e-W. 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First, despite being set amid the destruction of war, Ford's primary interest is in Tietjens' consciousness, not the events. Also, David Ayers observes, \"Parade's\u003cem\u003e End\u003c\/em\u003e is virtually alone of the male writing of the time in affirming the ascendance of women and advocating a course of graceful withdrawal from dominance for men\". Ford Madox Ford's stated purpose in creating this work, regarded as one of the great 20th-century English novels, was \"the obviating of all future wars\". \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition is complete and unabridged. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFord Madox Ford\u003c\/strong\u003e (1873-1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and editor. He was an international influence in early 20th-century literature. Ford grew up in a cultured, artistic environment as the son of a German music critic and grandson of the Pre-Raphaelite Ford Madox Brown. 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