Parade's End: Some Do Not-. No More Parades. A Man Could Stand Up-. the Last Post (Penguin Modern Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Ford, Madox Ford

Contemporary

Penguin??Books

Imagism was a brief, complex yet influential poetic movement of the early 1900s, a time of reaction against late nineteenth-century poetry which Ezra Pound, one of the key imagist poets, described as ‘a doughy mess of third-hand Keats, Wordsworth … half-melted, lumpy’. In contrast, imagist poetry, although riddled with conflicting definitions, was broadly characterized by brevity, precision, purity of texture and concentration of meaning: as Pound stated, it should ‘use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something … it does not use images as ornaments. The image itself is the speech’. It was this freshness and directness of approach which means that, as Peter Jones says in his invaluable Introduction, ‘imagistic ideas still lie at the centre of our poetic practice’.

Imagist Poetry (Penguin Classics)

H.D.

Amy, Lowell

Ezra, Pound

Marianne, Moore

Richard, Aldington

D.H.Lawrence

James, Joyce

Edward Storer

T.E. Hulme

John Cournos

Skipwith Cannell

John Gould Fletcher

F.S. Flint

Poetry

In creating his acclaimed masterpiece Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford "wanted the Novelist in fact to appear in his really proud position as historian of his own time . . . The 'subject' was the world as it culminated in the war." Published in four parts between 1924 and 1928, his extraordinary novel centers on Christopher Tietjens, an officer and gentleman-"the last English Tory"-and follows him from the secure, orderly world of Edwardian England into the chaotic madness of the First World War. Against the backdrop of a world at war, Ford recounts the complex sexual warfare between Tietjens and his faithless wife Sylvia. A work of truly amazing subtlety and profundity, Parade's End affirms Graham Greene's prediction: "There is no novelist of this century more likely to live than Ford Madox Ford."

Parade's End

Robie Macauley

United States

Penguin Classics

"A Tale of Passion," as its subtitle declares, The Good Soldier relates the complex social and sexual relationships between two couples, one English, one American, and the growing awareness by the American narrator John Dowell of the intrigues and passions behind their orderly Edwardian facade. It is the attitude of Dowell, his puzzlement, uncertainty, and the seemingly haphazard manner of his narration that make the book so powerful and mysterious. Despite its catalogue of death, insanity, and despair, the novel has many comic moments, and has inspired the work of several distinguished writers, including Graham Greene. This is the only annotated edition available.

The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion

British & Irish

Oxford University Press

This never-before published volume offers the late author's personal views on the period 1870-1895, presenting a history of that time fleshed out with reminiscence and anecdote

A History of Our Own Times

History

World

Indiana University Press

a highly fictionalized account of Katharine Howard's arrival at the Court of Henry VIII, her eventual marriage to the king, & her death. Without a dust jacket.

The Fifth Queen Trilogy: The Fifth Queen, Privy Seal, The Fifth Queen Crowned (The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford, Volume 2)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Reminiscences on Henry James,Crane,Hudson,Conrad,Hardy,Wells,and more.

Portraits From Life

Houghton, Mifflin Company

Leonora and Edward Ashburnham were "good people" from England, as John Dowell, the narrator of this tale, explains: and Dowell and his wife, Florence — leisured Americans of solid stock — were, like their English friends, a "model couple." For a dozen years, the foursome cultivated and maintained a friendship reinforced with yearly meetings at a fashionable German health resort, which Dowell visited with his "ailing" wife and the Asburnhams traveled to because of Edward's "heart problems." Their marriages seemed exemplary studies of permanence, stability, and tranquility. That is, until the day Dowell learned that for the previous nine years his wife had been the mistress of his friend Captain Ashburnham, the apparently honorable "good soldier." A provocative study of deception and betrayal and of convention and desire, The Good Soldier was also formally innovative. Along with Ford's Parade's End tetralogy, this powerful novel — first published in 1915 — has earned him a reputation as one of the major writers of the 20th century.

The Good Soldier (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels)

Reference

Dover `

The Ford Madox Ford Reader (Paladin Books)

Paladin

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.
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The Good Soldier: Introduction by Alan Judd and Max Saunders (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)

Everyman"s Library

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