The Good Soldier (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
New York: Penguin Books, 1999. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. Item #2354821
ISBN: 9780140283310
First printing thus. An exceptional copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
177 pp. For nine years, John Dowell and his wife have spent the summer season at a German spa town in the company of the respectable Ashburnhams. Behind the placid exterior of their lives lie the destructive passions of men and women. When Dowell's world breaks apart, he tells his story as intimately as to a silent listener across the fireplace of a country cottage. 'Who in this world knows anything of any other heart -- or of his own?'. Fifteen distinguished critics have subscribed to a single statement concerning this remarkable novel: 'Ford's The Good Soldier is one of the fifteen or twenty greatest novels produced in English in our century
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