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:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very Good, no tears, minor shelf wear. Page Condition: Good, clean pages, no yellowing. Markings: Previous owner. Binding: Tight and secure. No stickers or labels visible.
This authoritative literary biography chronicles the remarkable life and career of Ford Madox Ford, one of the most influential yet underappreciated figures of early twentieth-century English literature. Alan Judd presents a richly detailed portrait of the man behind enduring masterworks such as The Good Soldier and the Parade's End tetralogy, tracing Ford's turbulent personal life, his pivotal editorial role at the English Review, and his lasting friendships with Joseph Conrad, Henry James, and Ezra Pound. Written with a novelist's eye for character and a scholar's respect for evidence, the work illuminates how Ford's restless intellect and chronic instability shaped both his art and his relationships. Judd argues compellingly that Ford's reputation has long suffered from biographical myth-making and that a clearer understanding of the man is essential to appreciating the full scope of his literary achievement. The result is a definitive reassessment of a writer whose innovations in narrative technique helped define literary modernism.
Author: Alan Judd
Format: Hardback
Published: 1990, Collins
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very Good, no tears, minor shelf wear. Page Condition: Good, clean pages, no yellowing. Markings: Previous owner. Binding: Tight and secure. No stickers or labels visible.
This authoritative literary biography chronicles the remarkable life and career of Ford Madox Ford, one of the most influential yet underappreciated figures of early twentieth-century English literature. Alan Judd presents a richly detailed portrait of the man behind enduring masterworks such as The Good Soldier and the Parade's End tetralogy, tracing Ford's turbulent personal life, his pivotal editorial role at the English Review, and his lasting friendships with Joseph Conrad, Henry James, and Ezra Pound. Written with a novelist's eye for character and a scholar's respect for evidence, the work illuminates how Ford's restless intellect and chronic instability shaped both his art and his relationships. Judd argues compellingly that Ford's reputation has long suffered from biographical myth-making and that a clearer understanding of the man is essential to appreciating the full scope of his literary achievement. The result is a definitive reassessment of a writer whose innovations in narrative technique helped define literary modernism.