{"product_id":"the-good-soldier-isbn-9780679406655","title":"The Good Soldier","description":"\u003cb\u003eA classic examination of human nature, love, and betrayal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFord Madox Ford wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Good Soldier\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.Ford Madox Ford was born Ford Hermann Hueffer in England in 1873. In 1919 he changed his name to Ford Madox Ford in honour 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 age sixty-five, in France.","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300482666725,"sku":"NP9780679406655","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679406655.jpg?v=1767739596","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-good-soldier-isbn-9780679406655","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}