Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939)
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Born Ford Hermann Madox Hueffer in England in 1873, Ford Madox Ford came from a family of artists and writers that included his grandfather, the pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown, and his uncles Gabriel Dante Rossetti and William Michael Rossetti. Ford's early works were published under the vis mere name Ford Madox Hueffer, but in 1919 he legally changed his name to Ford Madox Ford due to legal complications that arose when he left his wife, Elsie Martindale, and their two daughters. He also used the pen names Daniel Chaucer and Fenil Haig. Ford's early works include The Brown Owl, a fairy tale, children's stories, romances, and The Fifth Queen, a historical trilogy about Katherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII. He also collaborated with Joseph Conrad, whom he first met in 1898, on three novels: The Nature of Crime, The Inheritors, and Romance. Ford is best known for his novels The Good Soldier, which he considered both his first serious effort at a novel and his best work, and Parade's End, a tetralogy set during World War I. Both of these books explore a theme that appears often in Ford's writing, that of a good man whose old-fashioned, gentlemanly code is in conflict with modern industrial society. Ford also published several volumes of autobiography and reminiscences, including Return to Yesterday and It Was the Nightengale, as well as numerous works of biography, history, poetry, essays, travel writing, and criticism of literature and art. Although Ford and Martindale never divorced, Ford had significant, long-term relationships with three other women, all of whom took his name; he had another daughter by one of them. He died in Deauville, France, in 1939. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Ford Madox Ford
Memories and Impressions: A Study in Atmospheres (Neglected Books of the Twentieth Century) (1911) 68 eksemplarer
Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance (Neglected Books of the Twentieth Century) (1989) 36 eksemplarer
Your mirror to my times;: The selected autobiographies and impressions of Ford Madox Ford (1971) 15 eksemplarer
The good solider ; Selected memories ; Poems (The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford) (1962) 14 eksemplarer
British Mystery Megapack Volume 1 - The Good Soldier, Haunted Hotel and The Red House Mystery (Illustrated) (2014) 6 eksemplarer
Collected poems 6 eksemplarer
Thus to revisit: some reminiscences 5 eksemplarer
The Works of Ford Madox Ford: The Good Soldier and Other Writings (Halcyon Classics) (2009) 4 eksemplarer
The Presence of Ford Madox Ford : a memorial volume of essays, poems, and memoirs (1981) 4 eksemplarer
Joseph Conrad: The Complete Novels 2 eksemplarer
The cantos of Ezra Pound : some testimonies 2 eksemplarer
A Little Less than Gods 2 eksemplarer
AGENDA 2 eksemplarer
En Acıklı Öykü 1 eksemplar
Il Senso critico 1 eksemplar
Quelque chose au coeur 1 eksemplar
High Germany : eleven sets of verse 1 eksemplar
The soul of London, The Heart of the Country, and The Spirit of the People; (Collected Works of Ford Madox Ford) (2013) 1 eksemplar
Ring for Nancy: A Sheer Comedy 1 eksemplar
The Transatlantic Review 1 eksemplar
The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford Vol.I and II 1 eksemplar
The Panel: A Sheer Comedy 1 eksemplar
O iluminativnom pretvaranju 1 eksemplar
On Heaven 1 eksemplar
On Heaven and Other Poems 1 eksemplar
Vive le roy,: A novel 1 eksemplar
Songs from London 1 eksemplar
the good soldier 1 eksemplar
Joseph Conrad: a Personal Rememberance 1 eksemplar
Mister Bosphorus and the Muses 1 eksemplar
Works of Ford Madox Ford. The Good Soldier, The Fifth Queen, The Inheritors, Privy Seal and more 1 eksemplar
Transatlantic stories / selected from The Transatlantic review ; with an introd. by Ford Madox Ford 1 eksemplar
Mightier than the Sword 1 eksemplar
The Good Soldier Annotated (Wordsworth Classic) 1 eksemplar
The Cinque Ports 1 eksemplar
New York essays 1 eksemplar
Transatlantic Review. Vols. 1-2 (1924) 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Imagist anthology, 1930 : poems by Richard Aldington, John Cournos, H.D., John Gould Fletcher, F.S. Flint, Ford Madox… — Bidragyder; Forord — 4 eksemplarer
Contact collection of contemporary writers — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Speculative Fiction and Imperialism in Africa (Political Future Fiction: Speculative and Counter-Factual Politics in… (2013) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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Almen Viden
- Juridisk navn
- Hueffer, Ford Hermann(born)
Ford, Ford Madox(changed during WW1)
Hueffer, Ford Madox - Andre navne
- Haig, Fenil
Chaucer, Daniel - Fødselsdato
- 1873-12-17
- Dødsdag
- 1939-06-26
- Begravelsessted
- Deauville, Frankrijk
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Fødested
- Merton, Surrey, Engeland, UK
- Dødssted
- Deauville, Frankrijk
- Bopæl
- Merton, Surrey, Engeland, UK
London, Engeland, UK
Parijs, Frankrijk
Olivet, Michigan, USA
Deauville, Frankrijk - Uddannelse
- University College School, Londen, Engeland, UK
- Erhverv
- Schrijver
Uitgever
Leraar
Redacteur
Dichter
Criticus - Relationer
- Brown, Ford Madox (Grootvader)
Hueffer, Francis (Vader)
Hueffer, Oliver Madox (Broer)
Hunt, Violet (Geliefde) - Organisationer
- Olivet College(Michigan)
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Doctor of Literature, Olivet College (1938)
- Kort biografi
- Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939), English novelist, poet, critic and editor; born as Ford Hermann Hueffer becoming Ford Madox Hueffer before settling on the name Ford Madox Ford
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To some extent I was right about the book concerning itself with war, but not on a battlefield but in the marriages of two couples. There were characters who fought on both sides of the war, there were spies, there were betrayals worse than ever those fought on muddy fields or in rat-infested trenches.
If you're Catholic and easily offended, this is not the book for you. I'm not Catholic and I was taken aback at the author's anti-Catholic themes that repeated throughout the book.
The thing that surprised me the most about the novel was the complete lack of sexual education some characters had. There is one character, female, who has no idea what sex is or where babies come from. I'm curious to know whether many women of the time (early 20th century) went into marriage as blind as these fictional people.
The Good Soldier goes right into a mental list of "best books". It isn't a favourite, though. It was too unpleasant and upsetting for favoritism, but the craft, story, and style of the novel make it a great one, however unhappy the story.… (mere)