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Good Soldier
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'A Tale of Passion', as its sub-title declares, The Good Soldier tells of 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 and ...
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The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
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'A Tale of Passion', as its sub-title declares, The Good Soldier tells of 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 and ...
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Parades End
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"Parade's End" is the title Ford Madox Ford gave to his greatest work, the four Tietjens novels which - in Graham Greene's words - tell 'the terrifying story of a good man tortured, pursued, driven into revolt, and ruined as far as the world is concerned by the clever devices of a jealous and lying wife'. He wanted to see the book printed in one ...
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Romance
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Joseph Conrad
A collaboration between Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford, ROMANCE tells the story of John Kemp, an upstanding young Englishman who comes under the spell of Don Carlos, a South American landowner. Kemp is drawn into an adventurous world of pirates, the Caribbean, exotic love, and secrecy.
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Last post
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1928. English novelist, Ford's eccentric personality and varied output has been attributed to the obscurity of his achievements. The Last Post is the concluding chapter in Ford's Parade End's series. The critics were divided on whether Ford should even have written this novel as it gives short shrift to the main character, Christopher Tietjens, ...
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Fifth Queen
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Ford Madox Ford
This masterful performance of historical fiction centers on Katharine Howard -- clever, beautiful, and outspoken -- who catches the jaded eye of Henry VIII and becomes his fifth Queen. Corruption and fear pervade the King's court, and the dimly lit corridors vibrate with the intrigues of unscrupulous courtiers hungry for power. Soon Katharine is ...
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The Inheritors
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Joseph Conrad
Written as a collaborative effort between Conrad and Ford, this book takes on themes that both authors were passionately concerned with--the modernization of Western society, changing traditions, the corruptibility of humanity.
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Your Mirror to My Times: The Selected Autobiographies and Impressions of Ford Madox Ford
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Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance
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Ford Madox Ford maintained a productive friendship with Joseph Conrad, and wrote a memoir of this relationship which, while praised by critics, was criticized by Conrad's widow for being self-serving on the part of the author.
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English Novel
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Ford has high praise for Anthony Trollope and Jane Austen, but in general he deplores the lack of "tradition" and commonality in the English novel as opposed to the French, and laments the fact that writers in England tend to be solitary, having little contact with each other.
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The March of Literature: From Confucius' Day to Our Own
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A survey of world literature, beginning with ancient Egyptian and Chinese literature, as well as the Bible, through classical, Middle Ages, Renaissance, and modern works. In putting together this work, Ford was trying to convey to readers his great love of books; he felt that academicians of the time were trying to cram down their pupils' throats ...
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No more parades
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1925. English novelist, Ford's eccentric personality and varied output has been attributed to the obscurity of his achievements. No More Parades is the second book of his four-volume work titled Parade's End. The subject was the world as it culminated in the war; the story centers on Christopher Tietjens, an officer and gentleman, the last English ...
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A Man Could Stand Up
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1926. A Novel. The third in a series that includes Some Do Not... and No More Parades. Ford's eccentric personality and varied output has been attributed to the obscurity of his achievements. The book begins: Slowly, amidst intolerable noises from, on the one hand the street and, on the other, from the large and voluminously echoing playground, ...
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Memories and Impressions: A Study in Atmospheres
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Ford Madox Hueffer
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A History of Our Own Times
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Ford Madox Ford
A HISTORY OF OUR OWN TIMES, a historical overview, is the first volume of a project that was left unfinished at Ford's death.
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Return to yesterday
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Follows on from Ford Madox Ford's "Ancient Lights" and covers the years from 1894 to the outbreak of World War I. This memoir (1931) deals with Ford's transition from privileged godson of the Pre-Raphaelites to the Modern writer and editor he became. Here, he evokes England at large, and London in particular, its literary community, and the ...
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It Was the Nightingale
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During a Christmas leave in London, Ford Madox Ford attended a party at the French Embassy, 'a heavy blond man in a faded uniform', wearied by years of war, recalled to a longing for the life of a writer. The evening marks the beginning of a new phase of Ford's life, the years of "It Was the Nightingale". Ford evokes the literary milieux of London ...
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The Good Soldier (Dodo Press)
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Madox Ford Ford
Large format for easy reading. Set just before World War I, this classic novel chronicles the tragedies of the lives of two supposedly "perfect couples" using intricate flashbacks (a literary technique pioneered by Ford).
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Some Do Not
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Ford Madox Ford
Originally published as a tetralogy of novels individually, the four came out as one volume in 1950. Christopher Tietjens is a conservative British man, devoted to tradition, honorable, and upright. But his world is crumbling. His wife Sylvia, enraged by Tietjens's ethics, has affairs and plots against him. Tietjens fights in World War I, succumbs ...
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New York Is Not America: Being a Mirror to the States / By Ford Madox Ford.
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Ladies Whose Bright Eyes: A Romance
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Return to Yesterday: Reminiscences of James, Conrad, and Crane
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In this 1931 volume, Ford remembers the pre-Raphaelite milieu of his childhood and youth. Covering the years 1894 to 1914, RETURN TO YESTERDAY is only partly factual, incorporating many fictional techniques. Ford commented that he wrote it, above all, "to entertain."
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The Correspondence of Ford Madox Ford and Stella Bowen
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"...throws light on Ford Madox Ford at a crucial moment of his life...These letters represent the turning point in his life and career." - Frank MacShane. In 1917, Ford Madox Ford met the Australian painter Stella Bowen; they lived together from 1919 to 1928. For Stella, their home was 'a place in the sun and against the rain too'. For Ford this ...
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Great trade route
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Romance, a novel
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