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Ford Madox Ford


Born
in Merton, Surrey, England
December 17, 1873

Died
June 26, 1939

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Influences


Ford Madox Ford was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals The English Review and The Transatlantic Review were important in the development of early 20th-century English and American literature.

Ford is now remembered for his novels The Good Soldier (1915), the Parade's End tetralogy (1924–1928) and The Fifth Queen trilogy (1906–1908). The Good Soldier is frequently included among the great literature of the 20th century, including the Modern Library 100 Best Novels, The Observer′s "100 Greatest Novels of All Time", and The Guardian′s "1000 novels everyone must read".
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Average rating: 3.71 · 42,897 ratings · 4,039 reviews · 500 distinct works • Similar authors
The Good Soldier: A Tale of...

3.66 avg rating — 29,768 ratings — published 1915 — 341 editions
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Parade's End

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3.87 avg rating — 6,966 ratings — published 1928 — 112 editions
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Some Do Not...

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3.80 avg rating — 1,002 ratings — published 1924 — 168 editions
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No More Parades

3.96 avg rating — 569 ratings — published 1925 — 146 editions
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The Fifth Queen

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3.42 avg rating — 595 ratings — published 1908 — 244 editions
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A Man Could Stand Up -

4.06 avg rating — 479 ratings — published 1926 — 2 editions
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The Last Post

3.71 avg rating — 380 ratings — published 1928 — 116 editions
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Some Do Not ... & No More P...

4.05 avg rating — 299 ratings — published 1924 — 9 editions
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British Mystery Multipack V...

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3.53 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions
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The Nature of a Crime

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2.85 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1909 — 26 editions
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“We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist. So, for a time, if such a passion come to fruition, the man will get what he wants. He will get the moral support, the encouragement, the relief from the sense of loneliness, the assurance of his own worth. But these things pass away; inevitably they pass away as the shadows pass across sundials. It is sad, but it is so. The pages of the book will become familiar; the beautiful corner of the road will have been turned too many times. Well, this is the saddest story.”
― Ford Madox Ford

“Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.”
― Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End

“I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.”
― Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion

Polls

December 2016 New School Classic Poll

 
  56 votes, 21.1%

White Fang by Jack London, 252 pages, 1906
 
  43 votes, 16.2%

 
  33 votes, 12.4%

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, 432 pgs, 1995
 
  32 votes, 12.0%

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, 468 pgs, 1913
 
  25 votes, 9.4%

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, 483 pgs, 1993
 
  16 votes, 6.0%

The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas, 176 pgs, 1960
 
  13 votes, 4.9%

Queer by William S. Burroughs, 160 pgs, 1985
 
  13 votes, 4.9%

 
  11 votes, 4.1%

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford, 368 pgs, 1915
 
  10 votes, 3.8%

The Vagabond by Colette, 252 pgs, 1910
 
  10 votes, 3.8%

 
  4 votes, 1.5%

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