Ford Madox Ford
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
A richly detailed literary biography, Alan Judd's Ford Madox Ford chronicles the turbulent life and enduring legacy of one of modernism's most complex and underappreciated figures. Judd traces Ford's remarkable journey from his privileged Victorian upbringing — as the grandson of Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown — through his transformative literary friendships with Joseph Conrad, Henry James, and Ezra Pound, to his founding of The English Review, one of the most influential literary magazines of the early twentieth century. With authoritative precision, Judd uncovers the contradictions at the heart of Ford's character: a man capable of producing the masterful tetralogy Parade's End and the celebrated novel The Good Soldier, yet perpetually mired in financial ruin, romantic scandal, and self-mythologizing. The biography's tone is measured and sympathetic without being hagiographic, presenting Ford as a flawed genius whose contributions to literature far outweighed the chaos of his personal life. Judd argues compellingly that Ford deserves a far more prominent place in the modernist canon, and this authoritative account makes a persuasive case for reassessing his remarkable, if troubled, career.
Author: Alan Judd
Format: Hardback
Published: 1990, Collins
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
A richly detailed literary biography, Alan Judd's Ford Madox Ford chronicles the turbulent life and enduring legacy of one of modernism's most complex and underappreciated figures. Judd traces Ford's remarkable journey from his privileged Victorian upbringing — as the grandson of Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown — through his transformative literary friendships with Joseph Conrad, Henry James, and Ezra Pound, to his founding of The English Review, one of the most influential literary magazines of the early twentieth century. With authoritative precision, Judd uncovers the contradictions at the heart of Ford's character: a man capable of producing the masterful tetralogy Parade's End and the celebrated novel The Good Soldier, yet perpetually mired in financial ruin, romantic scandal, and self-mythologizing. The biography's tone is measured and sympathetic without being hagiographic, presenting Ford as a flawed genius whose contributions to literature far outweighed the chaos of his personal life. Judd argues compellingly that Ford deserves a far more prominent place in the modernist canon, and this authoritative account makes a persuasive case for reassessing his remarkable, if troubled, career.