Description: In this novel English writer Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) examines the lives of 2 well-to-do married couples -- Leonora and Edward Ashburnham from England and 2 Americans from Philadelphia, John Dowell and his wife, Florence. Both couples have cultivated and maintained a long, ongoing friendship with each other. Their relationship is severely disrupted when Dowell, the narrator, learns that for the past several years his wife has been the mistress of his friend Captain Ashburnham, the apparently honorable "Good Soldier." A story of deception and betrayal, of conventional appearances and bitter truth, The Good Soldier was highly innovative for its time. With Ford's other works, this powerful novel has earned him a reputation as one of the 20th century's major writers.

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