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The Good Soldier

by Ford Madox Ford
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Details

Pages
192
Word Count
49500
Lexile
1040L
AR
7
Grade Level
G11 - G12
Genre
Psychological novel

Summary

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford is a masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction, an inspiration for many later, distinguished writers, including Graham Greene. Set before the First World War, it tells the tale of two wealthy and sophisticated couples, one English, one American, as they travel, socialize, and take the waters in the spa towns of Europe. They are playing the game in style. That game has begun to unravel, however, and with compelling attention to the comic, as well as the tragic, results the American narrator reveals his growing awareness of the sexual intrigues and emotional betrayals that lie behind its facade.

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