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Ford Madox Ford
Some Do Not… is Ford Madox Ford’s masterpiece, landmark novel about the World war One and the events leading up to it. He perfectly captures the chaos and insanity that…
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Max Saunders
A concise, cogent biography of avant-garde writer, critic and publisher Ford Madox Ford.
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Most of these letters are ‘finds,’ never previously published and serving to deepen and to give order to our awareness of Ford’s literary activities and involvements. Professor Ludwig, with lucidity…
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Ashley Chantler,Rob Hawkes
For students and readers new to the work of Ford Madox Ford, this volume provides a comprehensive introduction to one of the most complex, important and fascinating authors. Bringing together…
To provide a fresh perspective–from new and unexpected points of view–Sondra Stang gathers together a number of distinguished writers and critics to prove Ford and his works. Pritchard, Alison Lurie…
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In Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier, deception lurks beneath the veneer of Edwardian society. Narrated by the unreliable John Dowell, it unravels the intricate web of affairs, lies and…
"The Fifth Queen: And How She Came to Court" by Ford Madox Ford is a historic novel that unfolds in opposition to the backdrop of the tumultuous reign of King…
Ford Madox Ford's historical fiction book "The Fifth Queen and How She Came to Court" is set in Tudor England during King Henry VIII's reign. The narrative traces the rise…
Some do not...: A novel, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made…
This first volume of a two-volume life takes Ford from his birth as Ford Hermann Hueffer in 1873 to the eve of his departure for France, and war, in 1916…
Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) is a novelist, poet, literary critic, editor, a founding father of English Modernism, and one of the most significant novelists of the twentieth century. This collection…
For its centenary this volume originally re-examines some well-known issues surrounding The Good Soldier (1915) and its mad about writing author. The dialogue between established and young Ford scholars produces…
Robert Green
Critical studies of Ford Madox Ford have generally sought to demonstrate the novelist’s technical innovations. In this 1981 book, Dr Green acknowledges Ford’s success as a revolutionary technician, but argues…
H. Robert Huntley
Focuses on a single central problem: the frequently noted similarity between Ford’s protagonists, men whose peculiarly alien temperaments and ethics lead them into inevitable conflict with their particular milieu. The…
Thomas C. Moser
Author of over seventy books, including novels, poems, criticism, travel essays, and memoirs, Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) led a troubled yet vibrant life that shaped and was shaped by his…
This second volume of the biography covers the publication of Ford’s post-war masterpiece, Parade’s End, and the founding of the Transatlantic Review, the influential literary magazine that published Hemingway, Ezra…
Ford Madox Ford wrote some of the best English prose of the twentieth century. He was an innovative and influential poet, as well as the century’s greatest literary editor. This…
Nanette O?Brien
Tracing a line of transatlantic aesthetics and gendered productions of modernism, this monograph reveals the centrality of agriculture, cookery, domestic work and institutional dining to modernist authors.
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Laura Colombino
This book spans the most significant phases of Ford’s literary production, from his art criticism to his main modernist novels: The Good Soldier, Parade’s End, The Rash Act and Henry…
Taking account of Ford Madox Ford’s entire literary output, this companion brings together prominent Ford specialists to offer an overview of existing Ford scholarship and to suggest new directions in…
R. W. Lid
This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Ambrose Gordon
A critical evaluation of Ford’s novels of war, tracing the development of the novelist’s art in various phases.
This volume marks the centenary of Ford Madox Ford’s masterpiece The Good Soldier. It includes groundbreaking work on the novel’s narrative technique, chronology, and genre; pioneering work on bodies and…
The Dowells, a wealthy American couple, have been close friends with the Ashburnhams for years. Edward Ashburnham, a first-rate soldier, seems to be the perfect English gentleman, and Leonora his…
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First published in 1915, Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier begins, famously and ominously, This is the saddest story I have ever heard. The book then proceeds to confute this…
Ford Madox Ford was born Ford Hermann Hueffer on 17th December 1873 in Wimbledon, London, England.Today he is best known for one book, ‘The Good Soldier’, which is regularly held…
Sara Haslam
A work about Ford Madox Ford, a hero of the modernist literary revolution. This book also debates the concept of fragmentation in modernism. It discusses the notion of the personal…
An intriguing fairy tale about the Queen of a remote kingdom, who has a friend in the form of a bat. The bat tells her that he was once unable…
