The Good Soldier

Name: The Good Soldier
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Ford Madox Ford
ISBN: 9781455115457

Author: Ford Madox Ford

Narrator: Ralph Cosham

Unabridged: 7 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 01/27/2012

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

The Good Soldier is a story about the complex social and sexual relationships between two couplesone English, one Americanand the growing awareness of American narrator John Dowell of the intrigues and passions behind their orderly Edwardian faade. It is Dowells attitudehis puzzlement, uncertainty, and the seemingly haphazard manner of his narrationthat makes the book so powerful and mysterious. In Fords brilliantly woven tale, nothing is quite what it seems. Despite its catalog of death, insanity, and despair, this novel has many comic moments and has inspired the work of several distinguished writers, including Graham Greene. Originally published in 1915, The Good Soldier is considered by many to be Ford Madox Fords masterpiece.

About Ford Madox Ford

Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and editor whose two journals, the English Review and the Transatlantic Review, were instrumental in the development of early-twentieth-century English literature. He wrote dozens of novels during his lifetime, but he is now best remembered for The Good Soldier and Parade's End, the latter of which was originally published as four books: Some Do Not, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up, and The Last Poet.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on September 02, 2017

What a sick, rotten, depraved society we're treated to, populated by liars and knaves, and yet I found myself heartbroken by the end, wondering what kind of magic spell Ford had cast on me. Ford is an absolute master of technique--in this case the use of flashbacks and an unreliable narrator--and I......more

Goodreads review by Eliasdgian on February 25, 2020

"Αυτή: η πιο θλιβερή ιστορία που έχω ποτέ μου ακούσει – η πιο θλιβερή." Είναι η φράση οδοδείκτης με την οποία ο Ford Madox Ford υποδέχεται τους αναγνώστες του σε τούτο το μυθιστόρημα - κομψοτέχνημα που, διόλου άδικα, συγκαταλέγεται στα αριστουργήματα της παγκόσμιας λογοτεχνίας. Είναι η εισαγωγή κ......more

Goodreads review by Jr on October 04, 2016

Storytelling is about as much an art as is writing. Any piece of paper can have beautifully constructed sentences, impeccable prose, dazzling verses, yet when there simply is nothing to tell all those words are moot. The alarming strength of the Good Soldier can be found in its maze-like narration t......more