Book :: The Good Soldier
| By: | Ford Madox Ford |
| Pages: | 368 |
| Published: | 1915 |
| Genre(s): | England |
| Historical Fiction | |
| War | |
| Rating: | (7) |
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The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion is a 1915 novel by English novelist Ford Madox Ford. It is set just before World War I and chronicles the tragedies of the lives of two seemingly perfect couples. The novel is told using a series of flashbacks in non-chronological order, a literary technique pioneered by Ford. It also makes use of the device of the unreliable narrator, as the main character...
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Caro60
Through the eyes of the almost invisible narrator the central characters of this novel all seem to start out as virtuous people. As the story unfolds this seemingly positive group of people are progressively revealed by the narrator (if we believe him) to be flawed, often fatally. A fascinating, if at times uncomfortable, read.
Oct 6th, 2014
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62nd on The Novel 100 by Daniel S. Bert
