The Good Soldier ─ A Tale of Passion

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Ford Madox Ford wrote The Good Soldier, the book on which his reputation most surely rests, in deliberate emulation of the nineteenth-century French novels he so admired. In this way he was able to explore the theme of sexual betrayal and its poisonous after-effects with a psychological intimacy as yet unknown in the English novel.

Ford Madox Ford?was born Ford Hermann Hueffer in England in 1873. In 1919 he changed his name to Ford Madox Ford in honour 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?andThe Good Soldier,?which are still ranked among the greatest literary works of the twentieth century. Ford died in 1939, at age sixty-five, in France.