The Good Soldier (Oxford Worlds Classics)

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An appendix includes Ford's crucial essay "On Impressionism," written contemporaneously with the novel, which offers insight into Ford's artistry. This edition also has extensive notes, a chronology of the novel's main events, and an up-to-date bibliography. For over years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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Showing of reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. Ford - blasts the reader with words as a torrent from a fire hose. Ford peels the onion layer by layer not just from the outside in - but the inside-out as well, and simultaneously. I cannot help it.

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But, you will see these observations focus, change, refine, and morph to something different throughout the telling of the tale the unreliable narrator. And for this reader at least, the telling is MORE the point than the tale itself. It is a tale of broken hearts - both figuratively and literally!

I see that this book has many mixed reviews. I can also see why; it's pretty unusual. Let me just say before I go on that I read this book because it was on the MLA's list of the best books of the 20th century, and I'm glad I did. I'm not going to summarize the book.

If you're looking here, at this old obscure book, then you probably know about it somewhat already. What I am going to say is that I gave this book five stars because it was unlike anything I'd encountered before. The writing is lively, quirky, and eccentric at times, yes. The writing also jumps around, from past to present to past again, almost randomly. And reading this book doesn't really leave one with a great sense of hope. These are all good reasons for someone to not like a novel. So why did I like it? What this novel does have is a very remember-able narrator, someone who is both very pitiable and likeable.

It also has great character development; rarely have I seen characters come alive in such complex and dynamic ways in each part, each character evolved, or their character was revealed, so much that I constantly had to reassess everyone. It's also got an interesting, original, and somewhat dark structure-- at the each of each part, someone dies or a part of them, metaphorically, dies. And lastly, it has a very interpretable story; I can see a thousand different college kids writing a thousand wildly different essays, all contradicting each other.

In the end, this book isn't very long, and it's unique, so if you're mildly interested, just give it a shot.

If one is looking for a simple exciting read, then don't go for this one. But, if one is looking for something more eccentric, something a little more obscure and questionable-- all written in an easy and enjoyable style-- then this may be for you. It's a simple story of marital infidelity told in the most roundabout and obtuse way possible. Two married couples, American and English, regularly socialize together at a German spa over the course of about a decade. One half of each couple is a heart patient.

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One half of each couple engage in an affair. Eventually the truth comes out and the American husband, Dowell, unaware of any infidelity, finds out that the quietly contented life he's been living for his entire marriage is a lie.

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We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from us and you get great service as well as a great price! Your business is valued and your satisfaction is guaranteed! A masterpiece of early Modernism, The Good Soldier tells the story of the unfolding relationships between two couples in the words of an archetypal 'unreliable narrator'. Its portrayal of the destruction of a civilized elite is a work of unforgettable power and literary skill, here accompanied by Ford's important essay 'On Impressionism'.

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