Ford Madox Ford: 96 books

The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features...

This 900-page survey of world literature, "From Confucius' Day to Our Own" (as the subtitle reads), was the last book written by Ford Madox Ford, one of the seminal figures of the modernist period. Written for general readers rather than scholars and first published in 1938, The March of Literature is...

Many of British writer Ford Madox Ford's most acclaimed works are in the genre of historical fiction, and The Young Lovell highlights Ford's strengths in this domain. Structurally, the novel bears similarities to many other tales of courtly love and damsels in distress in the age of chivalry, but Ford adds a dimension of sophistication and insight that many competing novels lack.

A cross-genre evocation of a writer's life in the Mediterranean, this account documents the happy years Ford Madox Ford spent living in the South of France with his young artist lover, Biala.. Blending fiction, history, memoir, travel, and cookery writing, this tome charmingly evokes Ford and...

Ford Madox Ford's post-war masterpiece, Parade's End, is recognized as one of the great British novels about the First World War. This selection from his other extensive writings about the war, published and unpublished, sheds light on the tetralogy. It includes reminiscences, an unfinished novel,...

Ford Madox Ford was a prolific English novelist and poet in the early 20th century.  Ford wrote the best-selling novel The Good Soldier, as well as the Fifth Queen trilogy and the Parade's End series.   The Queen Who Flew is a fairy tale that centers around an innocent Queen who spends much...

Ford Madox Ford’s novel about the doomed Katharine Howard, fifth queen of Henry VIII, is a neglected masterpiece. Kat Howard—intelligent, beautiful, naively outspoken, and passionately idealistic—catches the eye of Henry VIII and improbably becomes his fifth wife. A teenager who has grown...

Ford Madox Ford was a prolific English novelist and poet in the early 20th century.  Ford wrote the best-selling novel The Good Soldier, as well as the Fifth Queen trilogy and the Parade's End series.   Privy Seal: His Last Venture is the second novel in the Fifth Queen trilogy. The book details a battle for power between Katharine, Throckmorton, and Cromwell.

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.’ Just before the First World War, two young couples meet in Germany. The seemingly...

This volume includes Ford Madox Ford's The Soul of London, The Heart of the Country, and The Spirit of the People. Published between 1905 and 1907, this trilogy investigates the changing culture of the English with originality and in ways that provide an excellent introduction to the work of this...

Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford's collaborative work "The Nature of a Crime" is a study of human psychology. Delving into the darkest recesses of human mind they present idiosyncratic characters fighting with their own overwhelming desires and intuitions. The deep love of the protagonist gives...

The Greatest Books of All Time Vol. 7 contains the following 10 Masterpieces : 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne Bleak House - Charles Dickens *Les Misérables *- Victor Hugo Macbeth - William Shakespeare Nostromo - Joseph Conrad Persuasion - Jane Austen Sons and Lovers - D....

"The Good Soldier" is the story of two couples. The first couple is English, Edward Ashburnham, the good soldier referenced in the title, and his wife Leonora. The second couple is American, John and Florence Dowell, who have been living abroad for quite some time. In a German spa prior...

The third volume of Parade’s End-one of the outstanding works about World War I and British society before, during, and after that cataclysm-this novel focuses on Valentine Wannop in London and Christopher Tietjens away at war, with the narrative concluding on Armistice Day. Making a dramatic comment...