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Ford wrote with engaging frankness about himself and his contemporaries. These reminiscences are an intimate personal record of a life distinguished by literary achievements and friendships with notable writers of his time. Ford's accounts of his literary collaboration with Joseph Conrad, of Stephen... More

An early example of literary impressionism, The Good Soldier is the story of Edward Ashburnham, his wife, and his American friends. It is told in a series of flashbacks, out of order, and with gaps.... More

"Provence" may perhaps be described as the crystallisation of the main idea running through the Great Trade Route, which we published a year ago. Of that book Mr A.G. McDonnell wrote in the Observer: "It is an Indictment, a Philipic....I know of no books to compare with this since Winwood Reade's Ma... More

This volume contains Ford's great novel The Good Soldier, plus selected poems and reflections on his early years.... More

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 thes... More

Some Do Not...' is Ford Madox Ford&’s masterpiece, landmark novel about the World war One and the events leading up to it. He perfectly captures the chaos and insanity that enveloped the word. Christopher Tietjens is an officer and a gentleman. We follow Tietjens as he tries to navigate a marriage f... More

An Englishman struggles to preserve his dignity in the face of intrigue, deceit, and WWI in the second novel of the celebrated Parade&’s End tetralogy.   Christopher Tietjens is an officer and a gentleman, but when he meets the beautiful and spirited Valentine Wannop, he is driven to finally betray ... More

Ford Madox Ford wrote this volume in 1915 as a rebuttal to British pacifists who opposed the war effort during the First World War. This critique of Prussian culture and politics is broad and far reaching in its analysis on various themes including German Economic Depression, Speeches and Decrees, o... More

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 up far fr... More

This monumental novel, divided into four separate books, celebrates the end of an era, the irrevocable destruction of the comfortable, predictable society that vanished during World War I.From the Trade Paperback edition.... More

Leonora and Edward Ashburnham were "good people" from England, as John Dowell, the narrator of this tale, explains: and Dowell and his wife, Florence -- leisured Americans of solid stock -- were, like their English friends, a "model couple." <P><P>For a dozen years, the foursome cultivated and main... More

Handsome, wealthy, and a veteran of service in India, Captain Edward Ashburnham appears to be the ideal "good soldier" and the embodiment of English upper-class virtues. But for his creator, Ford Madox Ford, he also represents the corruption at society's core. Beneath Ashburnham's charming, polished... More

The Good Soldier relates the complex social and sexual relationships between two couples, one English, one American, and the growing awareness by the American narrator John Dowell of the intrigues and passions behind their orderly Edwardian facade. Includes notes by Thomas C. Moser.... More

Una de las obras maestras de la literatura del siglo XX por primera vez traducida al castellano. Justo antes de que caiga la era eduardiana, en los albores de la I Guerra Mundial, toma lugar esta historia de traición, romance y el horror de las trincheras. En el centro de la narración está la esc... More

Justo antes de que caiga la era eduardiana, en los albores de la I Guerra Mundial, toma lugar esta historia de traición, romance y el horror de las trincheras. En el centro de la narración está la escandalosa separación de Christopher Tietjens, un clásico caballero inglés, conservador y convencional... More

Ez dakit zein den zera hau hobekien idazteko modua: hobe litzatekeen historia hasieratik kontatzea, historia bat balitz bezala; edo denboraren urruntasunetik kontatzea, Leonoraren ezpainetatik edo Edwarden berarenetatik iritsiko balitzait bezala. Beraz, neure burua aste pare batez edo, landetxe bate... More

One of Canada’s most painful and breathtaking pictures of a soldier’s life during the First World War. Peregrine Acland’s novel All Else Is Folly is an irreplaceable depiction of the Canadian experience in the First World War. More than just a devastating portrayal of the terrors and hardships of tr... More

Voyageur Classics is a series of special new versions of Canadian classics, with added material and special introductions by noted experts. This bundle contains some of the greatest Canadian fiction, including influential literature from Quebec (Maria Chapdelaine, The Town Below), a collection of th... More

The essential collection of beloved ghost stories, compiled by the editor who helped define the genre—including stories from award-winning, bestselling authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Seanan McGuire, and Paul Tremblay.Everyone loves a good ghost story, especially Ellen Datlow—the m... More

No More Parades is the second book in Ford Madox Ford&’s landmark No More Parades series. It sets forth the maddening chaos that is war, from the meddling of civilians who have no knowledge or care of how much pain and disaster their meddling will cause to the destruction of relationships and lives ... More