{"product_id":"good-soldier-isbn-9780679722182","title":"Good Soldier","description":"At the fashionable German spa town Bad Nauheim, two wealthy, fin de siecle couples -- one British, the other American -- meet for their yearly assignation. As their story moves back and forth in time between 1902 and 1914, the fragile surface propriety of the pre -- World War I society in which these four characters live is ruptured -- revealing deceit, hatred, infidelity, and betrayal. \"The Good Soldier\" is Edward Ashburnham, who, as an adherent to the moral code of the English upper class, is nonetheless consumed by a passion for women younger than his wife -- a stoic but fallible figure in what his American friend, John Dowell, calls \"the saddest story I ever heard.\"\u003cb\u003eFord Madox Ford\u003c\/b\u003e was born Ford Hermann Hueffer in England in 1873. In 1919 he changed his name to Ford Madox Ford in honor of his grandfather, the Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown, whose biography he had written. Ford was well known for both his fiction and his criticism. He founded two influential journals, \u003ci\u003eThe English Review\u003c\/i\u003e in 1908 and \u003ci\u003eThe Transatlantic Review\u003c\/i\u003e in 1924, in which he championed many of the leading modernist writers of the day. His most famous novels include the tetralogy \u003ci\u003eParade’s End \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Good Soldier, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich are still ranked among the greatest literary works of the twentieth century. Ford died in 1939, at the age of 65, in France.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301640065253,"sku":"NP9780679722182","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679722182.jpg?v=1767728371","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/good-soldier-isbn-9780679722182","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}