Ford Maddox Ford

Author : Ford Madox Ford
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1727680197

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The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford Pdf

The Good Soldier A Tale of Passion by Ford Madox Ford 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."

Author : Ford Madox Ford
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551999111

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Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford Pdf

A stark, modernist look at the realities of contemporary war. The four novels that makes up Parade’s End (Some Do Not..., No More Parades, A Man Who Could Stand Up—, and Last Post) tell the story of Christopher Tietjens, a British government statistician who joins the army during the first world war. He suffers severe shell-shock, and must live through an unhappy marriage while suspicions run rampant that he has been having an affair. The novels have been referred to as classics of 20th century modernist literature, and Ford has been praised for his unwillingness to ascribe some sort of purpose or order to the violence of war. HBO, VRT, and BBC collaborated on a miniseries adaptation of the novels starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall, and written by Tom Stoppard. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.

Author : Sara Haslam,Laura Colombino,Seamus O'Malley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317043386

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The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford by Sara Haslam,Laura Colombino,Seamus O'Malley Pdf

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 Ford studies. The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford is split into five parts, exploring the scholarly foundations of Ford Madox Ford studies, Ford's literary identity, Ford and place, specific case studies and themes and critical approaches. Within these five parts, the contributors cover areas relevant to Ford’s fiction, nonfiction and poetry, including reception history, life-writing, literary histories, gender and comedy. The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford is an invaluable resource for students and scholars in Ford Studies, in modernism, and in the literary world that Ford helped shape in the early years of the twentieth century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004328372

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Ford Madox Ford’s Cosmopolis: Psycho-geography, Flânerie and the Cultures of Paris by Anonim Pdf

Ford Madox Ford’s Cosmopolis explores and celebrates Ford’s internationalism, underlining his lifelong commitment to an international, transmedial approach to the arts. It brings to life his commitment to cosmopolitanism living, and thinking, and his vibrant intellectual networks spiralling around Paris.

Author : Ford Medox Ford
Publisher : Aegitas
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780369407658

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Some Do Not by Ford Medox Ford Pdf

Christopher Tietjens, a brilliant, unconventional mathematician, is married to the dazzling yet unfaithful Sylvia, when, during a turbulent weekend, he meets a young Suffragette by the name of Valentine Wannop. Christopher and Valentine are on the verge of becoming lovers until he must return to his World War I regiment. Ultimately, Christopher, shell-shocked and suffering from amnesia, is sent back to London. An unforgettable exploration of the tensions of a society confronting catastrophe, sexuality, power, madness, and violence, this narrative examines time and a critical moment in history.

Author : Alan Judd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1993-03-01
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 0674308166

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Ford Madox Ford by Alan Judd Pdf

Author : Robert McCrum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1903385423

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The 100 Best Novels in English by Robert McCrum Pdf

LITERARY COMPANIONS, BOOK REVIEWS & GUIDES. Everybody loves a list but this is a list of major ambition: namely, to select the best 100 novels in the English language, published from the late 17th century to the present day. This list has been built up week by week in The Observer since September 2013, and selected by writer and Observer editor Robert McCrum. With a short critique on each book, this is a real delight for literary lovers.

Author : Ford Madox Ford
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788728410448

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No More Parades by Ford Madox Ford Pdf

The second book in the ‘Parade’s End’ series, ‘No More Parades’ follows the story of Christopher Tietjens. An Edwardian Englishman through and through, Tietjens is forced to leave his ordered life behind him and join the bedlam of the First World War. Drawing on his own experiences, it’s against this backdrop that Ford describes the domestic battles between Tietjens and his unfaithful wife. Tragic and sometimes harrowing, this book deftly contrasts the chaos of private and personal conflicts against a war that would change the world, forever. Born in Wimbledon, Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox Hueffer (1873 – 1939) was a prolific poet, novelist, and literary critic, who would become better known by his pen-name, Ford Madox Ford. The grandson of the artist, Ford Madox Brown, he was educated firstly in Kent, before being accepted at the University College School in London. At the age of 21, Ford eloped with his childhood sweetheart, Elsie Martindale. After living at several houses, they finally settled in Winchelsea. There, Ford befriended a number of authors living locally, including HG Wells and Henry James. However, it was Joseph Conrad with whom he decided to collaborate, writing a pirate novel titled ‘Romance ́. After a nervous breakdown, Ford went to recover in Germany, which laid the foundations for ‘The Good Soldier.’ On returning to England, he founded ‘The English Review’ magazine, before being sent to fight in World War I. When the war finished, Ford spent the rest of his life travelling and writing. He leaves behind him more than 80 books and numerous poems.

Author : Ford Madox Ford
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473395541

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It was the Nightingale by Ford Madox Ford Pdf

This early work by Ford Madox Ford was originally published in 1933 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. Ford Madox Ford was born Ford Madox Hueffer in Merton, Surrey, England on 17th December 1873. The creative arts ran in his family - Hueffer's grandfather, Ford Madox Brown, was a well-known painter, and his German émigré father was music critic of The Times - and after a brief dalliance with music composition, the young Hueffer began to write. Although Hueffer never attended university, during his early twenties he moved through many intellectual circles, and would later talk of the influence that the "Middle Victorian, tumultuously bearded Great" - men such as John Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle - exerted on him. In 1908, Hueffer founded the English Review, and over the next 15 months published Thomas Hardy, H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, John Galsworthy and W. B. Yeats, and gave débuts to many authors, including D. H. Lawrence and Norman Douglas. Hueffer's editorship consolidated the classic canon of early modernist literature, and saw him earn a reputation as of one of the century's greatest literary editors. Ford's most famous work was his Parade's End tetralogy, which he completed in the 1920's and have now been adapted into a BBC television drama. Ford continued to write through the thirties, producing fiction, non-fiction, and two volumes of autobiography: Return to Yesterday (1931) and It was the Nightingale (1933). In his last years, he taught literature at the Olivet College in Michigan. Ford died on 26th June 1939 in Deauville, France, at the age of 65.

Author : Ford Madox Ford
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338080158

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The Rash Act by Ford Madox Ford Pdf

"The Rash Act" by Ford Madox Ford. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Ford Madox Ford
Publisher : Apollo
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1784082775

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A Call by Ford Madox Ford Pdf

Author : John Hope Morey
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004449718

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Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford by John Hope Morey Pdf

Ford Madox Ford's literary relations with Joseph Conrad are closely and systematically examined in this volume in order to determine the nature of the various kinds of help Ford claimed to have given his famous friend and collaborator.

Author : Sara Haslam
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042017177

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Ford Madox Ford and the City by Sara Haslam Pdf

"Ford Madox Ford and the City assembles fourteen pioneering essays, by new as well as established European and American scholars, exploring Ford's representations of real and ideal cities, across the full range of his work, from his earliest verse, to his post-war prose and poetry of the 1920s and 1930s."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : H. Robert Huntley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCAL:B4938140

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The Alien Protagonist of Ford Madox Ford by H. Robert Huntley Pdf

This book 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 main argument of the study is that behind these struggles, traced out through four successive centuries, lies a previously unnoted pattern. Originally published in 1970. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Ford Madox Ford
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504080798

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The Last Post by Ford Madox Ford Pdf

Following WWI, an English aristocrat struggles to find peace as he attempts to rebuild his life in this conclusion to the Parade’s End Tetralogy. The Great War is over. The ancestral home of Christopher Tietjens has been sold to an American. Christopher and Valentine Wannop now share a cottage with his brother and sister-in-law. A mathematician before the war, Christopher now earns a living selling antique furniture. It seems his world will be forever changed . . . Set over the course of one summer day, The Last Post follows its characters as they amble through a disorientating new world. Tensions arise for the inhabitants of the cottage. Valentine is pregnant and worried about her unmarried status as well as Christopher’s money troubles. Then Christopher’s estranged wife schemes to make their lives miserable. With the past haunting their present, the future seems uncertain for Christopher and Valentine. Praise for Parade’s End “The finest English novel about the Great War.” —Malcolm Bradbury “There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade’s End is one of them.” —W. H. Auden “The best novel by a British writer. . . . It is also the finest novel about the First World War. It is also the finest novel about the nature of British society.” —Anthony Burgess “The English prose masterpiece of the time.” —William Carlos Williams