The Good Soldier
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Subjects: Adultery -- Fiction; Bad Nauheim (Germany) -- Fiction; British -- Germany -- Fiction; Domestic fiction; Friendship -- Fiction; Married people -- Fiction; Middle class -- Fiction; Hessen (Hesse, Germany : Province) -- Fiction
Description: <p>At the height of <i lang="fr">belle époque</i> 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.</p>
			<p><i>The Good Soldier</i> 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.</p>
			<p>The novel is now frequently ranked by critics as one of the great pieces of twentieth-century literature. <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ford-madox-ford">Ford Madox Ford</a>, already published many times over by this novel’s release, and along with collaborations with both <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/joseph-conrad">Joseph Conrad</a> and Ernest Hemingway, went on to create and edit the influential literature journals <i>The English Review</i> and <i>The Transatlantic Review</i>.</p>