{"product_id":"good-soldier-2","title":"Good Soldier","description":"\u003cp\u003eFord Madox Ford's extraordinary novel of passion and betrayal, \u003ci\u003eThe Good Soldier\u003c\/i\u003e, is edited with an introduction by David Bradshaw in Penguin Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Dowells, a wealthy American couple, have been close friends with the Ashburnhams for years. Edward Ashburnham, a first-rate soldier, seems to be the perfect English gentleman, and Leonora his perfect wife, but beneath the surface their marriage seethes with unhappiness and deception. Our only window on the strange tangle of events surrounding Edward is provided by John Dowell, the husband he deceives. Gradually Dowell unfolds a devastating story, in which everyone's honesty is in doubt. \u003ci\u003eThe Good Soldier\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece of narrative skill and emotional depth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid Bradshaw's introduction discusses John Dowell as the classic unreliable narrator and as English literature's most fascinating enigma, and shows how Ford Madox Ford's unconventional narrative structure makes \u003ci\u003eThe Good Soldier\u003c\/i\u003e a modernist masterwork. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFord Madox Ford (1873-1939), born in Surrey and educated in England, Germany and France, changed his original surname, Hueffer, in 1919, after having served with the British army in World War I. As well as founding both the\u003ci\u003e English Review\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eTransatlantic Review\u003c\/i\u003e, home to such writers as James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, Ford was the author of more than sixty works including novels, poems, criticism, travel writing and reminiscences. \u003ci\u003eThe Good Soldier\u003c\/i\u003e (1915) is considered his masterpiece.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you enjoyed \u003ci\u003eThe Good Soldier\u003c\/i\u003e, you might like Ford's \u003ci\u003eParade's End\u003c\/i\u003e, also available in Penguin Classics, and now the subject of a major new BBC\/HBO television miniseries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A masterpiece'\u003cbr\u003eJulian Barnes, Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sense of an Ending\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I don't know how many times in nearly forty years I have come back to this novel'\u003cbr\u003eGraham Greene\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54252730450264,"sku":"9780141441849","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780141441849.jpg?v=1769059828","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/good-soldier-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}