Book description
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZOE HELLER
When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham
they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier
and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the
surface of their marriage is far more sinister and their influence
leads John into a tragic drama that threatens to destroy everything he
cares about.
Ford Madox Ford was born on 17 December 1873 in Merton, Devon. He
began writing in the 1890s and both his fiction and his criticism are
celebrated. His most famous works are
The Good Soldier
(1915) and
Parade's End
(1924-8). His other major contribution to literature was the foundation
of the
English Review
in 1908 and the
Transatlantic Review
in 1924. Ford changed his surname from Hueffer in 1919 after serving in
the British army in France during the First World War. After 1927 Ford
lived in the United States and France, and he died in Deauville on 26
June 1939.
