num_pages: 401
description: Ford Madox Ford’s 1915 novel The Good Soldier has established itself as a masterpiece of literary modernism, taking its place alongside Ulysses and The Waste Land as a groundbreaking experimental work. This Norton Critical Edition presents the first scrupulously edited text of the novel, collating all manuscript, typescript, and variant printed versions in Ford’s lifetime.Everything necessary for careful study of the novel is comprehensive annotation, material on manuscript development and textual variants, a detailed "Note on the Text", and relevant illustrations.  Together, these materials present readers with both a freshly edited text and the opportunity to reconstruct alternative readings."Contemporary Reviews" includes fifteen important assessments of the work, all of which appeared within four months of the novel’s publication."Literary Impressionism" collects eight critiques on the technique, including three by Ford and related writings by Henry James and Joseph Conrad, among others."Biographical and Critical Commentary" collects seventeen differing assessments of The Good Soldier . Richard Aldington, Samuel Hynes, John A. Meixner, Frank Kermode, Carol Jacobs, Thomas C. Moser, Ann Barr Snitow, Vincent J. Cheng, and Paul B. Armstrong are among the contributors.A Selected Bibliography is also included.
language: English
title: The Good Soldier
titlecomplete: The Good Soldier (Norton Critical Editions)
characters: Edward Ashburnham, Leonora Ashburnham, John Dowell, Nancy Rufford, Bagshawe, Florence Dowell, Maisie Maidan
genres: Fiction, English Literature, British Literature, Literature, Romance, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 26088
places: England
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company