A Study Guide for Ford Maddox Ford's "The Good Soldier"
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The Good Soldier
Ford Madox Ford
1915
Introduction
Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier (1915) is considered to be his best work, as well as one of the best novels of the twentieth century. The book tells the story of two wealthy couples, one from England and one from America, who befriend each other at a resort town in Germany and return there over more than a decade to continue their friendship. Over the course of the novel, the narrator, John Dowell, finds out more and more details about the complexities of his friends' marriage, and of the strains and responsibilities that life imposes on those who have been born to a life of privilege.
Ford's original title for this book, The Saddest Story, captures the sense of melancholy that surrounds the events that he relates. When it was published in 1915, however, his publishers rejected that title. The final title resounded strongly with audiences when it came out during World War I. If readers expected to find a book about war, though, they were bound to be disappointed. Though Edward Ashburnham, the English husband, does hold a commission in the army, Ford never relates any combat experience. The title ironically refers to the propensity of Edward, and of all members of his social set, to behave according to the implied rules of social behavior and not their emotions.
The Good Soldier has remained in print since its first publication. It is currently available in several editions, including one from Broadview Press published in 2003.
Author Biography
Ford Madox Ford was born Ford Hermann Hueffer on December 17, 1873, in Merton, Surrey, England. His father, Francis Hueffer, was a well-known music critic and writer on music. His mother, Catherine, was the daughter of the famous Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown. Eventually, after working on a biography of his maternal grandfather, Ford adapted his subject's name and took it as his own.
When he was growing up, Ford's family acquaintances included such literary luminaries as Algernon Swinburne and Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Rossetti. Ford was educated at the Praetorius School, Folkstone. Though he never attended college, he was fluent in several languages and was a prolific writer. His first novel, The Brown Owl, was published when he was eighteen: it was a folk story illustrated by his grandfather. He was married in 1894, at the age of twenty-one, to Elsie Martindale. The marriage was not good from the start and was steeped in scandal. Ford was notoriously unfaithful, at one point having an affair with Elsie's sister,