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| The Good Soldier (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Ford Madox Ford
Creators: Max Saunders, Alan Judd
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Category: Book
List Price: £16.29
Buy Used: £7.80
You Save: £8.49 (52%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 1466120
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Reissue
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 864
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0679406654
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
EAN: 9780679406655
ASIN: 0679406654
Publication Date: September 1991
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: HB & DJ. Unclipped, no inscription. Minor shelf wear. Ships from UK (2160)
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 Sad Story, Amusingly Told April 30, 1999
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Terrific book, extremely advanced for its time, though it does show Jamesian influences. It starts out:"This is the saddest story I've ever heard." Quite loosely written, with an ingenuously lazy wit, and it's a very complex story about two couples, ironically narrated by an American man, who is a splendid combination of naive and penetrating psychological insights, who is trying to document and piece together the steps leading to the suicide of Edward, his English friend, who in spite of the fact that he was an excellent fellow he was unable to keep his hands off whatever women came his way, and fall madly in love with the least appropriate damsels. I suspect the English fellow is a self-portrait, for the narrator is very gauche, and innocent, and not at all like Ford.
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