The Good Soldier: A Tale Of Passion - Brossura

Ford, Ford Madox

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ISBN 10: 0486419215 ISBN 13: 9780486419213

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 2001

Riassunto

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.

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From one of the 20th century's major writers - a story of deception and betrayal, of conventional appearances and bitter truth. Highly innovative for its time, this powerful novel tells of 2 married couples whose long, ongoing friendship is severely disrupted when one husband learns that his wife has been the mistress of his British friend.

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• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0486419215
• ISBN 13: 9780486419213
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 151