The Good Soldier (Annotated)

Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier is a landmark of modernist fiction, a tale of adultery, deception, illness, and moral disintegration among two apparently refined couples in prewar Europe. Subtitled "A Tale of Passion," the novel is narrated by the famously unreliable John Dowell, whose fragmented recollections, hesitations, and revisions make the act of storytelling itself a central drama. Its ...