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At the fashionable German spa town Bad Nauheim, two wealthy, fin de siecle couples -- one British, the other American -- meet for their yearly assignation. As their story moves back and forth in time between 1902 and 1914, the fragile surface propriety of the pre -- World War I society in which these four characters live is ruptured -- revealing deceit, hatred, infidelity, and betrayal. "The Good Soldier" is Edward Ashburnham, who, as an adherent to the moral code of the English upper class, is nonetheless consumed by a passion for women younger than his wife -- a stoic but fallible figure in what his American friend, John Dowell, calls "the saddest story I ever heard."
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The Good Soldier, Madox Ford Ford
- Taal
- Jaar van publicatie
- 1989
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- Titel
- The Good Soldier
- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- Madox Ford Ford
- Uitgever
- National Geographic Books
- Jaar van publicatie
- 1989
- Formaat
- Paperback
- Aantal pagina's
- 278
- ISBN10
- 0679722181
- ISBN13
- 9780679722182
- Reeks
- Tags
- Fictie, Liefde, Klassiekers, Britse Literatuur, Engeland, Engelse literatuur, Matrimonium, Fraude, Ontrouw, Soldaten
- Oorspronkelijke titel
- The saddest story
- Beoordeling
- 3,7 van 5
- Aantekening
- At the fashionable German spa town Bad Nauheim, two wealthy, fin de siecle couples -- one British, the other American -- meet for their yearly assignation. As their story moves back and forth in time between 1902 and 1914, the fragile surface propriety of the pre -- World War I society in which these four characters live is ruptured -- revealing deceit, hatred, infidelity, and betrayal. "The Good Soldier" is Edward Ashburnham, who, as an adherent to the moral code of the English upper class, is nonetheless consumed by a passion for women younger than his wife -- a stoic but fallible figure in what his American friend, John Dowell, calls "the saddest story I ever heard."