num_pages: 214
description: When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister and their influence leads John into a tragic drama that threatens to destroy everything he cares about.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.
language: English
title: The Good Soldier
titlecomplete: The Good Soldier
characters: John Dowell, Maisie Maidan, Bagshawe, Nancy Rufford, Leonora Ashburnham, Florence Dowell, Edward Ashburnham
genres: Classics, British Literature, English Literature, Novels, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 26085
places: England
publisher: Penguin Books