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At the height of belle époque Europe, an American couple—the narrator John Dowell and his wife Florence–and a British couple–Leonora and the titular “good soldier” Edward Ashburnham—meet and become firm friends. Travelling and socialising together, it’s a full nine years before the cracks start to show, but when they do the whole edifice starts tumbling to reveal the secrecy and lies concealed within.
The Good Soldier is a classic example of the unreliable narrator genre. With a charitable view, everything John Dowell retells is plausible, but it doesn’t take much critical thinking to reframe the story’s events as something entirely more sinister.
The novel is now frequently ranked by critics as one of the great pieces of twentieth-century literature. Ford Madox Ford, already published many times over by this novel’s release, and along with collaborations with both Joseph Conrad and Ernest Hemingway, went on to create and edit the influential literature journals The English Review and The Transatlantic Review.
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Fiction, family life, Married people, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Germany, fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, family life, general, Adultery, British, Classic Literature, Fiction, Friendship, Married people, Middle class, Aultery, Social life and customs, History, German, Dictionaries, English language, Chinese, Korean, French, Literary criticism, European, British--germany--fiction, Married people--fiction, Middle class--fiction, Friendship--fiction, Adultery--fiction, Pr6011.o53 g5 2012b, 823.912People
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Bad Nauheim, Bad Nauheim (Germany), GermanyShowing 11 featured editions. View all 85 editions?
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The good soldier: a tale of passion
2012, Oxford University Press
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The good soldier
2005, ICON Classics
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2005, ICON Classics
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2005, ICON Classics
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The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
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This is the saddest story I have ever heard. We had known the Ashburnhams for nine seasons of the town of Nauheim with an extreme intimacy - or, rather with an acquaintanceship as loose and easy and yet as close as a good glove's with your hand. My wife and I knew Captain and Mrs Ashburnham as well as it was possible to know anybody, and yet, in another sense, we knew nothing at all about them.
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