{"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","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/good-soldier-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}