The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford
The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford Publisher: Everyman’s Library ISBN: 9781857150209 The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion, first published in 1915, is Ford Madox Ford’s masterful exploration of deception, desire, and moral disintegration. Set within the refined world of Edwardian high society, the novel begins as a seemingly orderly account of two respectable couples whose lives appear governed by decorum and tradition. Gradually, however, this façade crumbles.
Through a subtle, shifting narrative, Ford reveals a web of infidelities, hidden motives, and emotional betrayals. What seems at first a polite social drama unfolds into a story of fatal attraction and psychological complexity, exposing the volatile desires and destructive impulses concealed beneath the surface of civility.
At once intimate and unsettling, the novel probes the fragility of love, loyalty, and truth, establishing Ford as a pioneering modernist whose innovative storytelling and keen psychological insight reshaped the English novel.

